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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... poetry Battle lines 7 The 'performing Word': Southwell's sacralised poetic The cross-action of grace Hearts and thorns: Sidney's and Southwell's poetic vision Southwell's poetic sacrament Southwell and Spenser: truth and beauty Love ...
... poetry. 3 There have been some fine commentaries on Robert Southwell's life and work, but none of them has explained to my satisfaction why a man like Jonson would have admired this poem so. This book is an attempt to answer that ...
... poetry) into a new ideal of self-identification, an agonistic, yet deeply personal response to God which he redeployed to help souls in his English ministry. The few writings from Southwell's years in school show a sensitive, somewhat ...
... poet. At the same time, by the standards of post-Arnoldian criticism, he is less than one, because as a Jesuit he was a trained rhetorician with a didactic brief: the creation of poetry for its own sake was not his end; helping souls ...
... poetry by the thematic multiplicity developed by Crashaw, failed to excite the English, Southwell's poetic descriptions of the super-real human drama of baroque visual imagery leaped the boundary into English letters. The drama of his ...
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 |