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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. Using both the most recent edition of Southwell’s poetry and manuscript materials, it addresses both poetry and private writings including letters and diary material to give dramatic context to the radicalisation of a generation of Southwell’s countrymen and women, showing how the young Jesuit harnessed both drama and literature to give new poetic poignancy to their experience. Bringing a rigorously forensic approach to Southwell’s ‘lighter’ pieces, Sweeney can now show to what extent Southwell engaged exclusively through them in direct artistic debate with Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare, placing the poetry firmly in the English landscape familiar to Southwell’s generation. Those interested in early modern and Elizabethan culture will find much of interest, including new insights into the function of the arts in the private Catholic milieu touched by Southwell in so many ways and places.
Robert Southwell's appeal to Queen Elizabeth I against her proclamation of October 1591 against the Roman Catholics
An estimate of the life and writings of the greatest poet of sacred verse in the golden age of lyric expression.
For the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss. and englarged with Hitherto unprinted and inedited poems from mss. at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and original illustrations and facsimiles in the Quarto form. Edited, with memorial-introduction and notes by the Rev. A.B. Grosart.
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