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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... means to an end, not a matter of habit; discussion of his work must be founded on this understanding. Southwell was not an English poet, but one who sometimes chose English as part of his rhetorical arsenal. This would seem sufficient ...
... means of showing the frailty of the spiritual vehicle, but Southwell does more than borrow its illustrative potential, translating moody confusion into the metaphorised emblem, using it as a means of expressing what ordinary language ...
... means of self-expression (witness) and a methodology of communicating with certain people (ministry). Here, then, we see the sound beginnings of a strategy in which the language of metaphor is considered not only generally influential ...
... means of tears than by tongue [...] Oh, England, England.' 40 In Southwell's version, the English speaker, no longer sharing the safety of Latin, or of a Continental Catholic college, prefers to leave such specific identifications free ...
... means of transmitting the power of the Roman Church where the doors of legitimate debate were now barred against it. Concepts that had begun as doctrinal issues later found acceptable literary expression in Southwell's lyric poetry. The ...
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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