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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.

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This study of Southwell takes the reader deep beneath the richly paradoxical world of the poems and their striking contrasts…Anne Sweeney has made us see not dusty relics but living poems. -- .

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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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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719085673, 978-0719085673
      ISBN10: 0719085675

      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.

      Trade Review
      This study of Southwell takes the reader deep beneath the richly paradoxical world of the poems and their striking contrasts…Anne Sweeney has made us see not dusty relics but living poems. -- .

      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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