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The World of John Taylor the Water-Poet 1578-1653 (Hardcover, New)
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The World of John Taylor the Water-Poet 1578-1653 (Hardcover, New)
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Total price: R3,960
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This is the first full study of a self-educated popular writer who
carved out a pioneering role for himself as a `media celebrity' and
became a national institution. Taylor chronicled his adventurous
life and passed judgement on his age in a stream of shrewd and
witty pamphlets, poems, and essays. His writings allow us to piece
together the world of a London waterman over the space of forty
years, from the reign of James I to the aftermath of the civil war.
His ready wit, restless ambition and bonhomie soon made him a
well-known figure in the Jacobean literary world and at the royal
court. Claiming the fictitious office of `the King's Water-Poet',
he fashioned a way of life that straddled the elite and popular
worlds. Taylor published his thoughts - always trenchant - on
everything from politics to needlework, from poetry to inland
navigation, from religion and social criticism to bawdy jests. He
was a more complex and contradictory figure than is often asumed:
both hedonist and moralist, a cavalier and staunch Anglican with a
puritanical taste for sermons and for armed struggle against the
popish antichrist. He embodies many of the contradictions of a
world that was soon to be, all to literally, at war with itself.
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