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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... perhaps betrays a nostalgia for the old religion: 'Even from my earliest infancy', Robert wrote to his father much later, 'you were wont in merriment to call me Father Robert.' 8 Southwell's family appears to have maintained Catholic ...
... perhaps in response to Mayne's heroic endeavour, he decided instead to aim for the Society of Jesus. This radical, new Order taught a Tridentine Catholicism unfamiliar, even inimical, to the more conservative Catholics in England. From ...
... Perhaps 'The prodigall childs soule wracke' (p. 43) was written up from a meditation of that time. 'Disankered from a blisfull shore' of homely certainties, and 'lancht into the maine of cares', he finds himself 'on every side ...
... perhaps too hectic for English literary tastes, at least as the English prefer to define them; there is an English critical tendency to dislike its 'foreignness' in Crashaw, while admiring its richness in Milton.44 But there is a ...
... perhaps in sly reference to the secrecies imposed on priests by their mission work, he reverses the process common in religious plays of the period of casting ordinary people as biblical characters, instead casting divine characters as ...
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 |