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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... Painting by numbers: Southwell's new poetic vision Learning to do violence to the self English College: cross-purposes Painful subjects: the new English martyrs 2 The Spiritual Exercises: the 'inward eie' Raphael and the refining of the ...
... painted saints and bishops. Eight of the eleven on the choir screens are female, and St Bridget of Sweden, shown at her desk busily writing down her vision of Christ, could be an exemplar for Southwell's mother Bridget (Copley), an ...
... painted as a butterfly, though this is never explicit. The imagery is allowed to float free of words into a clearer metaphysical space; an informed reader would fit the picture to a memory-store of imagery, recalling the classical tale ...
... painted in strong lines, passionately eloquent in their umbrage, where his God is plain, curt, rational, just. 45 Southwell's use of poetry for religious matters was attacked by the Puritan and Calvinist Joseph Hall as trivialising, 46 ...
... painting or theatricals, not mere description: the pace and reception of the imagery is played with as in a drama, the peripheral characters opposed in their busyness to the dramatic, compelling posture of the Babe and the utter ...
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 |