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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... religious studies, I was on the thinnest of ice. I hope it is evident that I am addressing discoursal and literary issues only; St Robert Southwell is beyond all comment spiritually, but as a poet and an Englishman he earned his ...
... religious decoration, a rich medieval parade of painted saints and bishops. Eight of the eleven on the choir screens are female, and St Bridget of Sweden, shown at her desk busily writing down her vision of Christ, could be an exemplar ...
... 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 sympathies in private, while struggling to ...
... religious brothers, and the practical needs of controversy and refutation. Allen made sure the students were 'acquainted “with the chief impieties, blasphemies, absurdities, cheats and trickeries of the English heretics, as well as ...
... religious dramas and pageants.37 As a novice in Rome, Southwell was to be entirely surrounded, from rising to sleeping, with the imagery of Christian heroism. In the churches the altars were overlooked by the first tentative expressions ...
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 |