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George Sandys - Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
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George Sandys - Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
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The Caroline poet George Sandys had an exceptionally interesting
early career as traveller and colonist; this study of his work
following his return to England sheds new light on the expression
of religious and political moderation prior to the Civil War. The
poet George Sandys is one of the most interesting figures of the
Renaissance period, his life and career encompassing a number of
varied aspects. As a colonialist leader in Virginia he and his
colleagues pursued a lenient policy towards the Indians which
nearly cost the colony its existence. Returning to England, and
settling at Great Tew along with other poets such as William
Chillingworth and Lord Falkland, he won limited favour at the
Caroline court; although he was loyal to the king, and adopted a
richly Laudian style for his religious verse, he was implacably
opposed to the divisive and confrontational policies of the Laudian
church, and became an increasingly outspoken critic of absolutist
government. His last work, a translation of a Latin religious play
by Hugo Grotius, was the first in a series of literary attacks by
moderate Royalists on Archbishop Laud.This book, the first recent
examination of his life and work, sheds new light both on an
unjustly neglected figure, and on the literature of religious and
political moderation prior to the Civil War. JAMES ELLISON is
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.
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