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Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke
Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen
Elizabeth I. Although his poems, long out of print, are today less
well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville
left an indelible mark on the world of Renaissance poetry, both in
his love poems, which ably work within the English Petrarchan
tradition, and in his religious meditations, which, along with the
work of Donne and Herbert, stand as a highpoint of early Protestant
poetics.
Back in print for a new generation of scholars and readers, Thom
Gunn's selection of Greville's short poems includes the whole of
Greville's lyric sequence, "Caelica," along with choruses from some
of Greville's verse dramas. Gunn's introduction places Greville's
thought in historical context and in relation to the existential
anxieties that came to preoccupy writers in the twentieth century.
It is as revealing about Gunn himself, and the reading of earlier
English verse in the 1960s, as it is about Greville's own poetic
achievement."" This reissue of "Selected Poems of Fulke Greville
"is an event of the first order both for students of early British
literature and for readers of Thom Gunn and English poetry
generally.
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Caelica (Paperback)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1907 Excerpt: ...of her harmony) cals for Musick; especially that
song which himself had intitled, La cuijse rompue. Partly (as I
conceive by the name) to shew that the glory of mortal flesh was
shaken in him: and by that Musick it self, to fashion and
enfranchise his heavenly soul into that everlasting harmony of
Angels, whereof these Concords were a kinde of terrestriall Echo:
And in this supreme, or middle Orb of Contemplations, he blessedly
went on, within a circular motion, to the end of all flesh. The
last scene of this Tragedy was the parting between the two
brothers: the the weaker shewing infinite strength in suppressing
sorrow, and the stronger infinite weakness in expressing of it. So
far did invaluable worthinefle, in the dying brother enforce the
living to descend beneath his owne worth, and by abundance of
childish tears, bewail the publique, in his particular loss. Yea so
far was his true remission of minde transformed into ejulation,
that Sir Philip, (in whom all earthly passion did even as it were
flash, like lights ready to burn out) recals those spirits together
with a strong vertue, but weak voice; mildly blaming him for
relaxing the frail strengths left to support him, in his finall
combate of separation at hand. And to stop this naturall torrent of
affection in both, took his leave, with these admonishing words:
Love my Memorie, cheri/h my Friends; their Faith to me may assure
you they are honest. But above all, govern your Will, and
jiffeftions, AffeCtions, by the Will and Word of your Creator; in
me, beholding the end of this World, with all her Vanities. And
with this Fare-well, desired the company to lead him away. Here
this noble Gentleman ended the too short Scene his life; in which
path, whosoever is not confident that he walked the next way to ...
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++Cambridge University LibraryN004390Anonymous. By Fulke and
Frances Greville. With an index.London: printed for T. Cadell
(successor to Mr. Millar), 1768. xxix, 1],223, 11]p.; 8
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