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Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism
Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of these brilliant but neglected poets brings nuance to our understanding of literary royalism, and considers the interconnections between politics and poetics. Through a series of detailed close readings revealing the complex and nuanced significance of classical allusion in individual poems, together with an historically informed consideration of the polemical force of both publishing acts, Pugh aligns the two poets with competing factions within the royalist camp. Offering a new argument for the unity of Herrick's vast collection Hesperides, and making a case for the rehabilitation of Richard Fanshawe, this engaging book will also be of wider interest to anyone concerned with politics in seventeenth-century literature or with classical reception.
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Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism
Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of these brilliant but neglected poets brings nuance to our understanding of literary royalism, and considers the interconnections between politics and poetics. Through a series of detailed close readings revealing the complex and nuanced significance of classical allusion in individual poems, together with an historically informed consideration of the polemical force of both publishing acts, Pugh aligns the two poets with competing factions within the royalist camp. Offering a new argument for the unity of Herrick's vast collection Hesperides, and making a case for the rehabilitation of Richard Fanshawe, this engaging book will also be of wider interest to anyone concerned with politics in seventeenth-century literature or with classical reception.
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Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

by Syrithe Pugh
Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

by Syrithe Pugh

Overview

Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there are striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of these brilliant but neglected poets brings nuance to our understanding of literary royalism, and considers the interconnections between politics and poetics. Through a series of detailed close readings revealing the complex and nuanced significance of classical allusion in individual poems, together with an historically informed consideration of the polemical force of both publishing acts, Pugh aligns the two poets with competing factions within the royalist camp. Offering a new argument for the unity of Herrick's vast collection Hesperides, and making a case for the rehabilitation of Richard Fanshawe, this engaging book will also be of wider interest to anyone concerned with politics in seventeenth-century literature or with classical reception.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781409475637
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 04/28/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Syrithe Pugh lectures at the University of Aberdeen, and researches the reception of classical literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry. Her earlier monograph, Spenser and Ovid, is also published by Ashgate.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I Ovid in the Hesperides : Herrick's Politics of Allusion; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1 ‘Cleanly-wantonnesse’: Ovid's Amatory Elegies in the Hesperides; Chapter 2 ‘Times trans-shifting’: The Metamorphoses and the Fasti in the Hesperides; Chapter 3 Exile and Haven: The Tristia and Ex Ponto in the Hesperides; Part II Poetic Imitation and Limited Monarchy in Fanshawe's 1648 Il Pastor Fido; intro2 Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4 ‘These lessons let his tender years receive’: Buchanan, Fanshawe, and Fatherly Advice to Kings; Chapter 5 Otium and Civil War: The ‘Ode on the Proclamation’; Chapter 6 Humanist Counsel, the Body Politic and the Ship of State; Chapter 7 ‘A Canto of the Progresse of Learning’: Spenser and the Decline of Humanist Counsel; Chapter 8 Tempering Lucan and Virgil: Fanshawe on the Civil Wars of Rome;
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