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Southwell's sphere : the influence of England's secret poet / Gary M. Bouchard.
Van Pelt Library PR2349.S5 Z56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouchard, Gary M., 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595--Criticism and interpretation.
- Southwell, Robert.
- Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595--Influence.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, English.
- Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- History.
- Catholics--England--Intellectual life.
- Catholics.
- Intellectual life.
- Catholics in literature.
- Catholics--Intellectual life.
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern.
- English poetry--Early modern.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Once feared by Queen Elizabeth I and admired by William Shakespeare, Robert Southwell, s.j. (1561-1595), clings today to a thinning canonical presence in English literature among a sphere of other writers incongruously called the metaphysical poets. Southwell's Sphere lifts this sixteenth century Jesuit priest and prolific writer from the obscurity in which he too often resides and places him instead at the center of a sphere of English poets upon whom his life and works exerted an observable influence. As he weaved his religious content into the familiar loom of Elizabethan form and style, this young missionary priest was seeking not just to catechize those whom he regarded as the faithful and the fallen, but to intentionally reform the verse of his native England. Remarkably, during his brief six-year mission, he actually managed in many respects to do so. Surviving for six years by successfully navigating and fostering a complicated underground Catholic network in and around London before being captured, tortured and imprisoned, Southwell was brought to trial and executed at Tyburn at age 33. He therefore never knew most of the "skillfuller wits" that he called upon to direct their poetic skills to the service of God. And like the marks upon his tortured body, the poetic marks of influence that his work left upon individual writers of this era were in many cases deliberately concealed. Southwell's Sphere seeks to rediscover those marks and offer the reader a renewed appreciation for this subverted and subverting literary force in Early Modern England"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781587318221
- 1587318229
- OCLC:
- 908990298
- Publisher Number:
- 99983601047
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