... and Gervase Markham; publications about colonization and exploration, such as those by Sylvester Jourdain and Robert Harcourt. Poetry focuses on the published works of William Browne, John Taylor, and George Wither. Powerful tragedies by Marston, Chapman, and Webster are examined; likewise, comedies...

...This chapter explores Edward Palmer Thompson's career as a poet, and the evolution of his poetics. It also demonstrates that Thompson's poetry and his poetics were intimately related to the political and intellectual challenges he faced, as he struggled to relate his scholarly investigations...

... career, without pretending to reduce it to a schema or a set of slogans. The ‘decade of heroes’ was the most dramatic and important of Thompson's life. He brought a strong belief in moral sensibility and judgement to scholarship, as well as poetry. His ‘hardcore’ beliefs allowed him to connect past...

... is on the question of whether or not one moves beyond not knowing. The chapter then studies the ‘disease’ of ignorance, which may be said to make up the very condition of poetry and of literature, and also considers the possibility to see philosophical scepticism as part of, or engaged with, a theory of ignorance...

... with correction. It is a strong Argument, that they have received Light or Instruction who readily give it’ (sig. a^r–v). Paradoxically, it is Major's bodily and spiritual weaknesses that allowed her to receive Caryl's commendations and publish her writings. Major's volume of prose and poetry...

.... ⁶⁴ Writers received an audience among schoolchildren, teachers, parents, families and communities. Children’s writing contested the usual educational limitations: stories, autobiography, poetry and novels were written, breaking out of the ‘Toytown measurements’ of the examined essay. ⁶⁵...

... to the loss of alternative idylls becomes a mirror of oppression, and potentially liberation. Parrots in Australian poetry have a bad reputation. Australian poetry pastoral nature landscape place pathetic fallacy morality gender parrots idyllicism Can ‘pastoral’ as both a super-rarefied genre-form...

...In this chapter, the author talks about spatial lyricism and linguistic disobedience. The lyric is the basis of all his poetry, but its signature is blurred and reconstituted. The difficulty for the lyric in conveying ‘emotional’ content is that it cannot be effective if the material...

...Since the mid-1990s, the author has edited a number of special Australian issues of literary journals from Britain, Canada, and the United States. He has also edited an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry, Landbridge (1999a), and is currently completing a two-volume...

... mutiny of 1589 Nassau Maurice of Nieuwpoort battle of 1600 epic poetry Cristóbal Rodríguez Alva Spanish tercios Mutiny Dutch Revolt war narratives ‘Mutinies have happened since armies were first gathered for war and slaves for work, and the first crews of ships endured the sea.’ This sentence...

...The idea of the transcendent, the relationship between time and eternity, between the numinous and the immanent is a central theme in the poetry of many contemporary Irish writers. But in many instances what appears in such poetry is the spiritual urge towards faith rather than dogmatic...

... orientalised poetry. The chapter also considers in broader terms the neo-orientalist underpinnings of post-colonial literary criticism from the west, based in part on its location in the neo-imperialist centre, and complicatedly manifested in the increasing prominence accorded Third World women writers. Gandhi...

... ap Gwilym rhetoric relics debate poetry body and soul visions allegory In the Middle English poem attributed to John Lydgate, The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man , translated from the French poem by Guillaume de Deguileville, the allegorical figure of Grace Dieu, hoping to guide...

...-consciousness in these writings which all outline, often competing, artistic positions that the elegiac poet might occupy. elegy graveyard poetry melancholy Radcliffe Ann sensibility Shelley Mary Smith Charlotte Freud Sigmund Hogle Jerrold E Sacks Peter M Walpole Horace Bentley Richard Gray Thomas...

... Kashgar refugees Poetry Refugees Memory Soviet power Trauma Among numerous historical poems written in Qırghız (Kyrgyz, Kirghiz) about the 1916 anti-tsarist uprising in Semirech’e, one in Arabic script bearing the title Qırghın (The Slaughter) was written by Musa...

... Richard Pearse Patrick Bolger Dermot Doyle Roddy Hamilton Hugo capitalism Gibbons Luke Fanning Bryan Ginsberg Allen globalisation Neruda Pablo Whitman Walt Said Edward diaspora Yeats William Butler Joyce James recession Irish poetry Kinga Olszewska Colette Bryce Mary O'Donnell Michael...

...Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry ‘recognises that words fail us’. This book explores his struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. It seeks to show how all Hill's work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric...

..., as well as the practical needs of refutation and controversy. The chapter then discusses some of Southwell's early writings and several aspects of his life, training and different agendas, also considering the approach of the Jesuits to writing, Southwell's use of poetry for religious matters and his...

...This chapter considers the influence of Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises on Southwell. It first discusses Southwell's religious training, which made him aware of the presence of the angelic, and allowed him to express it accordingly in his poetry. The chapter shows...

...It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell's poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book takes apart that idea – and the poetry – word by word and discovers layers of new meanings, hidden emblems and sharp critiques...