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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... possible encomium from a great ego. What did he admire in it? In the nineteenth century a minister of the Reformed church, Alexander Grosart, considered Southwell's writing to be 'more potential in our Literature than appears on the ...
... possible.'24 Jesuits were not being groomed by the Society for front-line conflict in Protestant states. Campion's vigorous anti-Protestant labours in Prague were interrupted (and ultimately terminated) by the requirement to go to ...
... possible. Where rhetorical manifestations of the baroque, generally represented in English poetry by the thematic multiplicity developed by Crashaw, failed to excite the English, Southwell's poetic descriptions of the super-real human ...
... possible for Catholics living in the midst of an alien society'. 57 Southwell did this in part by offering his distressed flock possibilities of sympathetic identification, creating models of biblical characters in similarly complex ...
... possible to detect a direct challenge to the self-reflexive Shakespearean or Danielan sonnet on the immemoriality of poetry; his very language seems to echo and deride them. 'I settled have an unremoved mind' he insists, echoing 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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Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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