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Robert Southwell's poetic view of Spenser's, Signey's and Shakespeare's England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots. -- .

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ben Jonson’s admiration for Southwell’s ‘Burning Babe’
1. Rome: the discernment of angels
2. The 'Spiritual Exercises': the ‘inward eie’
3. Hidden ways and secret veins: into England
4. I. ‘Joseph’s Amazement’: England’s altered confidence
4. II. Magdalen and the passionate imagination
5. Snow in Arcadia: rewriting the English lyric landscape
6. Southwell’s war of words
7. The ‘performing Word’: Southwell’s sacralised poetic
8. Conclusion

Robert Southwell

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 30 August 2006
      ISBN-13 9780719074189
      978-0719074189
      ISBN-10 719074185

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Robert Southwell's poetic view of Spenser's, Signey's and Shakespeare's England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Ben Jonson’s admiration for Southwell’s ‘Burning Babe’
      1. Rome: the discernment of angels
      2. The 'Spiritual Exercises': the ‘inward eie’
      3. Hidden ways and secret veins: into England
      4. I. ‘Joseph’s Amazement’: England’s altered confidence
      4. II. Magdalen and the passionate imagination
      5. Snow in Arcadia: rewriting the English lyric landscape
      6. Southwell’s war of words
      7. The ‘performing Word’: Southwell’s sacralised poetic
      8. Conclusion

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