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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... letters, had singled out this bagatelle for admiration – indeed, he wished he himself had written it; there can be no greater possible encomium from a great ego. What did he admire in it? In the nineteenth century a minister of the ...
... letter from a Roman student, Robert Middlemore, to his cousin Robin Throckmorton of Coughton. 9 The Throck-morton family included some celebrated recusants; they were connected to Vauxes and to that celebrated builder and gardener Sir ...
... letter he wrote to Robert Cecil from prison after his capture in 1592 (see p. 14 below). His English writings were inevitably harnessed to the cause of Rome, with all the problems and implications that this carried in England. The ...
... letter to his friend. The ship/soul emblem is commonplace enough as a means of showing the frailty of the spiritual vehicle, but Southwell does more than borrow its illustrative potential, translating moody confusion into the ...
... letters. The drama of his ventriloquisations of Biblical penitents such as Sts Peter and Mary Magdalen are clearly related to the new early baroque imagery of near-photographic realism which showed biblical persons caught in the middle ...
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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