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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... , seizing the attention of the viewer, drawing him into their drama. This artistic vision was to inform Southwell's poetic expression in turn; the imagery of his shorter English lyrics Hatching butterflies: the Jesuit approach to writing.
... turn; the imagery of his shorter English lyrics is highly visual as a rule, his language clearer of allegory and argument than was usual in Elizabethan poetry, as if his primary intention was to replicate the pictures rather than engage ...
... turn, view (and identify with?) the frightened wanderer, in the moment that he recalls a central liturgical moment of the Christian Calendar, just as Southwell would have done in his Roman church, before real altar-pieces designed to ...
... turning it towards heaven rather than eschewing it altogether, setting out to demonstrate a Christianised mastery over many poetic forms, some satirical, some almost approaching the burlesque, a variety of tone and genre that seems to ...
... turn of the century offered all sorts of violence to those who stuck their necks out in doctrine or politics; even Southwell obscured elements of his meaning and mission in his poetry, and his early publishers were discreet in their ...
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 |