Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586–95Manchester University Press, 2013 M07 19 - 328 páginas It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell’s poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and sharp critiques of Elizabeth’s courtiers, and even of the ageing queen herself. |
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... less well qualified than they to embark upon. I am also very grateful that Father Thomas McCoog, S.J., of Mount Street, took the time to look over and comment on aspects of the work, which has, in any case, called much upon his ...
... less than two months before Southwell's arrival. Southwell had determined to go into orders, first considering the contemplative Carthusians; but, after much struggle, and perhaps in response to Mayne's heroic endeavour, he decided ...
... less than one, because as a Jesuit he was a trained rhetorician with a didactic brief: the creation of poetry for its own sake was not his end; helping souls was. But that Jesuit training is integral to an understanding of his writing ...
... less devout minds in towards a higher understanding of their soul. Southwell made many journeys about England, some in lively company of the sort he had known in his days with the Copleys and Cottons; it is likely that some of his ...
... less combative than Persons, and seemed inclined towards accommodation with aspects of Elizabeth's rule. A distinction must here be drawn between attacks on heresy, which Southwell continued to produce in various forms when in England ...
Contenido
the inward eie | |
into England | |
Englands altered confidence | |
rewriting the English lyric landscape | |
Southwells war of words | |
Southwells sacralised poetic | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |