1st Edition
Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism
By Syrithe Pugh
Copyright 2010
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
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.
’... an interesting and compelling survey of intertextuality and its classical dimensions in royalist poetry... [Pugh's] book certainly opens the door for classicists to mine this rich vein of material.’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review '... Pugh has created an impressive scholarly resource, and undertaken research that shows great skill in drawing out new allusions between Cavalier poetry and an impressive range of classical verse and ideas... Pugh’s excellent study promises to generate both new and revived interest in the Cavalier poets, showing us the potential scope for uncovering complex allusions and finding significant new subtexts in their work.' Notes and Queries
