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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... metaphorical martyrdom Authority and writing: the virtual church Needing a new sort of English The Catholic cultural network: songs among swords Southwell's contacts: public voices, hidden selves 4 The flight of angels: England's ...
... metaphor, as if ordinary language could not cope with the chaos of his disordered feelings. On being at last accepted by the Society, Southwell wrote a sort of autobiographical retrospective to Deckers, describing how he had felt torn ...
... metaphor is considered not only generally influential, but also handmaid to individual response, to self-expression. Here, too, we see his first acknowledgement of the 'winter' that threatened to overcome his spirits throughout his life ...
... metaphors used largely with restraint, a product, I would suggest, of his Continental seminary education, in which he was unused to any English but the most restrained and focused, and very used to seeing a message condensed into emblem ...
... metaphor. In 1578, Allen moved his college to the safety of French Rheims, while Southwell, mind at last made up, remained in Tournai with the Jesuits, where in October 1578 he was finally admitted to the novitiate of the Society of ...
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 |