This book is a complete edition of the authentic poems, English and
Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S. Robert
Southwell, offering new texts based on the very manuscripts which
were circulated in secret among English Catholics in the years
after the poet's death. This edition, by drawing its texts directly
from a complete re-examination of these contemporary manuscripts,
makes these poems more than items of literature; it allows them to
regain some of their original purpose of communicating forbidden
theologies and doctrines amongst a criminalised and near-silenced
readership of secret, persecuted groups. These are the poems of
those Catholics who did not or could not flee the country as the
Elizabethan State bore down upon their faith in the last two
decades of the sixteenth century. Southwell's new visions and
visualisations in English bear their fruit a generation later in
the works of Donne and Herbert. His rare Latin verses (here widely
available for the first time, accompanied by a new translation)
show also that that the Augustans, even Milton, owe him a creative
debt.
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