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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... seems a peculiarly risky act: the Pope had declared Elizabeth excommunicate six years earlier, and given English Catholics permission to consider her overthrow.13 It therefore might be expected that those hoping for preferment at Court ...
... seems to exist in part outside language. That dizzying trompe l'oeil manipulation of the imaginary space between God's heaven and viewer's earth seen in baroque decoration is here co-opted: Southwell collapses the distance and ...
... seems that it was Southwell's pedagogically directed, simplified baroque vision that was the model seen as the more useful by Milton, who later possibly visited Southwell's English College in Rome, 47 and who experienced Rome's baroque ...
... seems to have caused some unease in Southwell scholarship.59 But why should not a priest have a sense of humour? Southwell could be playful even with religious themes, as in 'New heaven new warre' (p. 13), where, perhaps in sly ...
... seems to us to be the sole province of the Romantics. His trope has theological roots, evoking the exile of the children of Eve described as 'this vale of tears' in the 'Salve Regina', the prayer for intercession to the Virgin, upon ...
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 |