Academic literature on the topic 'Southwell, robert, saint, 1561?-1595'

В статье рассматривается духовная лирика поэта-проповедника Р. Саутвелла (1561–1595) как представителя Елизаветинской эпохи. Основное внимание уделяется влиянию на творчество автора такого литературного направления, как эвфуизм. Чтобы продемонстрировать, насколько активно и целенаправленно поэт прибегает к эвфуистическим приемам, и достичь понимания того, с какой целью он это делает, кратко рассматривается биография Р. Саутвелла в рамках религиозного конфликта между католиками и протестантами, являющегося историко-культурным контекстом, в который вписано творчество поэта. Проводится подробный лингвостилистический анализ 26 лирических текстов из стихотворного цикла «Сетование святого Петра» с элементами лингвопоэтического анализа. Новизна данного исследования состоит в том, что впервые систематический анализ лирики Р. Саутвелла проводится с позиций лингвистики, а не литературоведения или религии. По результатам анализа автор делает вывод, что эвфуистические приемы позволили Р. Саутвеллу не только ярко и наглядно отразить в своих текстах остроту религиозного конфликта, в эпицентре и под непосредственным влиянием которого, а также сопутствовавших этому конфликту противоречий обеспечили сохранение стилистического единства во всех текстах рассматриваемого цикла. The article concentrates on the religious poetry of Robert Southwell (1561–1595) as a representative of the Elizabethan era; the focus of attention is the influence of euphuism on the poet’s writing style. Southwell actively and purposefully employs euphuistic means of expression, such as parallelism and especially alliteration, in his works; in order to achieve a better understanding of the reasoning behind this stylistic choice, Southwell’s biography is briefly examined within the framework of the religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, which provides the historical and cultural context for Southwell’s texts. A detailed linguostylistic and linguopoetic analysis of 26 excerpts from his didactic religious poem “St Peter’s Complaynte” is then carried out. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that this article, unlike most previous works focused on Robert Southwell’s poetry, carries out a systematic analysis of Southwell's poems from a linguistic standpoint, as opposed to that of literary criticism or religion. Based on the results of the analysis, the author of the article concludes that employing euphuistic means of poetic expression as actively as Southwell does allows the poet to achieve a more vivid depiction of the religious conflict in the eye and under the influence of which his poetic texts were born; moreover, euphuism serves to create a stylistic unity between all the poetic texts that comprise “St Peter’s Complaynte”.

After Jesuit priest Robert Southwell's execution in February 1595, his letters and poems surged in popularity, and demand for his newly printed works quickly outstripped supply. Moeoniae, a collection of twenty-two poems ‘both Diuine and Wittie’ printed as an addendum to his popular Saint Peter's Complaint, had two editions in 1595 alone, and at least one more before the end of the century. Poem number 18 in Moeoniae, ‘Upon the Image of Death’, also appears in the seventeenth-century Waferer Commonplace Book (British Library Add. MS 52585) but only in one other manuscript collection with the rest of his poems. Modern Southwell editions have quarantined the poem under headings such as ‘Poem of Dubious Authorship’. And yet the poem, a meditative confession and plea for grace in the face of mortality, does display some elements of Southwell's style, and is particularly compelling if in fact it was written in the years Southwell struggled to provide spiritual guidance to his loyal congregation while evading capture and execution. This paper investigates the relationship between the commonplace book, the Moeoniae print editions, and the manuscript poetry collections from which ‘Upon the Image of Death’ is conspicuously absent, and offers a new annotated edition of the poem.

Abstract Brilliant and well born, Robert Southwell (1561–95) joined the Society of Jesus in 1578, and in 1586 he returned to England to minister to Catholics, including Philip Howard, imprisoned for his faith. He wrote an An Epistle of Comfort (1587) to all persecuted Catholics (see Consolations, instructions and devotions), and other works, notably Mary Magdalen’s Funeral Tears (1591), and a plea for tolerance, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty (1595, pub. 1600–1). Southwell endured capture, imprisonment, and torture before his execution in 1595.

Abstract Robert Southwell (1561-95), English poet and Jesuit martyr. Born into a Catholic family, he was sent abroad to be educated, first at the Jesuit school, Douai, then at the Roman College. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1578, was ordained in 1 584, and returned to England two years later as a priest on the English Mission, becoming chaplain to the Countess of Arundel. In June 1592 he was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement in the Tower, and on 21 February 1595 hanged and quartered at Ty burn for high treason.