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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... seen to be primarily a means to an end, not a matter of habit; discussion of his work must be founded on this understanding. Southwell was not an English poet, but one who sometimes chose English as part of his rhetorical arsenal. This ...
... seen in the letter he wrote to Robert Cecil from prison after his capture in 1592 (see p. 14 below). His English writings were inevitably harnessed to the cause of Rome, with all the problems and implications that this carried in ...
... seen in baroque decoration is here co-opted: Southwell collapses the distance and difference between his reader and God, the airy gulfs of blue sky replaced by the internal spaces, comprehension and affection of the reader, directed ...
... seen as the more useful by Milton, who later possibly visited Southwell's English College in Rome, 47 and who experienced Rome's baroque art in all its glory, complete with those succinct Jesuit glosses and captions. The pedagogic and ...
... seen, too, in the light of the pleasant conversation, encouraged by the Society to draw less devout minds in towards a higher understanding of their soul. Southwell made many journeys about England, some in lively company of the sort he ...
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 |