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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... reflected not only in melancholy poetry but in Southwell's later lyrics, where he metaphorises an English courtier's spiritual dereliction as a ruined building.5 Southwell's own church, St Faith's, contains a near-miraculous ...
... reflected this. English was the language of contestation with English Protestants, vying for the hearts and minds of ordinary English men and women; Latin was the language of the angels, 19 while the vernacular was a weapon of war ...
... reflected in much of his lyrical writing, in its lightness of touch, a spirituality offering 'dymm glymses to the light' of a universal brightness beyond its lines ('Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter', p. 26). Southwell was ...
... reflected in his poetry, especially the lighter Southwell's English poetry, though not in itself overtly catechetical, can none the less therefore be seen to fit into a lively, flexible and creative pedagogical tradition. Faithful to ...
... reflects the 'dialogical reasoning process with the inner self' of the Exercises, 102 elicits harder questions that were bound to cause disquiet in any who had abandoned the Catholic sacraments: 31 Was life so deare and Christ become so ...
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 |