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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... understanding of a part of my nation's history that has been all but 'disappeared', and learned to respect the young Jesuit priest-poet. I undertook this work for the love of the man and his words, and I hope this book will be read in ...
... understanding. Southwell was not an English poet, but one who sometimes chose English as part of his rhetorical arsenal. This would seem sufficient to explain Southwell's later poetic critique of some of his countrymen, an assault which ...
... understanding of his writing. It was, by the standards of his day, unusual, and, as it focused to an unusual degree on creative arts and the uses to which they can be put, it is relevant to Southwell's development as a writer. In ...
... understanding as if on a spiritual progress. There is a telling interconnectedness between the techniques of revelation in Jesuit art and drama and Southwell's use of imagery. His ideal is to turn the beauties of art, as he has ...
... understanding that 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 ...
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 |