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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 83
... readers will know of Robert Southwell's. I recall reading it as a child; it seemed pleasantly atmospheric to a childish imagination, the holy Babe appearing like a bright bauble against the dark of a snowy English Christmas evening. It ...
... reader would fit the picture to a memory-store of imagery, recalling the classical tale of Psyche, the mortal female who captured the heart of Cupid, and who (often depicted as a butterfly) is taken as a symbol of the elevated human ...
... reader and God, the airy gulfs of blue sky replaced by the internal spaces, comprehension and affection of the reader, directed upwards by Southwell towards his desired heavenly point. This understanding of the connections between, and ...
... reader, in the hope of raising his or her spiritual sensibilities. This new foregrounding of sensual apprehension of the divine allowed a more emotional relationship with God, 48 Southwell developing Tridentine ritualism into a ...
... readers he felt to be in need more of consolation than of polemic. Southwell's poetry can be seen, too, in the light of the pleasant conversation, encouraged by the Society to draw less devout minds in towards a higher understanding 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 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |