Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586–95
by
Anne R. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
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...