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ROBJERT SOUTHWlELL? S. J.: ENGLAND?S FIRST METAPHYSICAL POET GARY M. BOUCHARD Isn't there one whole area of the Elizabethan scene that we miss even in Shakespeare's huge world of comedy and despair? The kings speak, the adventurers speak ... the madmen and the lover, the soldiers and the poets, but the martyrs are quite silent. Graham Greene, Introduction, 7he Hunted Priest: Autobiography oIJohn Gerard THERE 1S A GRIM 1RONY in calling certain persons Elizabethan. By itself the tide is still more regal than any other by which one might be fixed upon an English literary time-line. Any blackened chimney sweep might be a Victorian, but Elizabethan is a tide that-even after the sophisticated, corrective histrionics of the past two decades-we still somehow imagine to have been won at a pageant. This, after all, is Gloriana's Court and Shakespeare's England that, black plague, secret police, and grotesque public executions notwithstanding, can't quite seem to have the merry stretched out of it-not even by the 1590's "new[est] kind of torture, no less cruel than the rack" (qtd. in Janelle 66)1 from which hung the young, lice-covered, Jesuit poet, Robert Southwell, for extended periods of time in Gatehouse prison before his
Explorations in Renaissance Culture – Brill
Published: Dec 2, 2000
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