Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution

This book presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English Revolution by focusing on royalist poets who left the cause behind following the execution of the king.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Davenant: Imagining Sovereignty in Gondibert


• 2: Marvell: Action and Obedience


• 3: Cavendish: Ceremony and Coercion


• 4: Cowley: Oblivion and Obedience


• 5: Davenant and the Protectorate: Sovereignty and Civility


• 6: Restoration: Clemency and Contingency


• Conclusion

About the author

Niall Allsopp is a Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. He specializes in the literature of the seventeenth century, and particularly the English Revolution, with interests including how literature negotiates the ideas of sovereignity, political obligations, public rituals, and social cohesion in a period when such concepts were radically tested. His essay Threshold Rituals in Early Modern England: A Case Study in Robert Herrick won the Review of English Studies essay prize 2016.

Summary

This book presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English Revolution by focusing on royalist poets who left the cause behind following the execution of the king.

Product details

• Authors: Niall Allsopp, Niall (Lecturer in English Allsopp
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198861065
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886106-5
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets