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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... thing that manages, apparently on these merits, to make its way into most anthologies of the English poetic canon. It came as something of a shock to me as an undergraduate to learn that Ben Jonson, with his reputation as a hard man of ...
... thing on which the heretics plume themselves exceedingly, and by which they do great injury to the simple folk', the College boys were trained in controversialism and English, as well as Latin, rhetoric.22 Southwell was learning a new ...
... du Bartas. Southwell was clearly near the centre of things poetical, despite later unease at his religious agenda.71 But the religious is political as well as personal; and, Performing deeds: Southwell's poetic purposes.
... thing is not doing it, and cannot attract divine grace. Theologically, this engaged with contemporary controversies over the access of divine grace, highlighting a perceived weakness of Calvinism: 'performing deed' seemed irrelevant to ...
... things. The various names, pseudonyms and identities by which he was known are as good an illustration as any of this process of piecemeal composition. Southwell, for long on his English mission incognito, and going under various ...
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 |
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