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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... sense: the sudden radiance in the gloom, with the tragic-heroic person of the Man-Babe occupying the centre of the composition, surrounded in baroque style by lesser but more obviously emblematic personifications such as Justice, Mercy ...
... sense of humour? Southwell could be playful even with religious themes, as in 'New heaven new warre' (p. 13), where, perhaps in sly reference to the secrecies imposed on priests by their mission work, he reverses the process common in ...
... sense of who he was and what he wanted to say, at least as missioner. The traditional English critical approach to poetry that argues that the aesthetics of it are the only consideration might say that an underlying didactic agenda ...
... sense of self-importance, quite beyond any devotional importance. Manuscripts circulating amongst private groups could carry more than face meanings. In tune with the habits of his day, Southwell's shorter lyrics (including, of course ...
... sense of self, judging by his record of spiritual development. This remarkable document has been well preserved, due to the Ignatian habit of keeping a developmental diary for self-assessment and correction, as Southwell's Spiritual ...
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 |