Collected Poems: Robert Southwell, SJ

by Southwell, Robert; Davidson, Peter; Sweeney, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781857548983
• ISBN10: 1857548981
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Presented not only in English but also featuring rare Latin verses accompanied by a faithful new translation, this is the definitive volume of poems of a neglected figure in sixteenth-century literature. New texts are offered based on the manuscripts that were circulated in secret among English Catholics after Southwell's death, returning to the poems some of their original purpose of communicating forbidden theologies and doctrines among a criminalized and near-silenced readership of secret groups.

Author Biography

Robert Southwell, SJ, was an English Jesuit priest and poet who lived from 1561–1595, when he was hanged at Tyburn. Peter Davidson is a professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen and the editor of The Clarendon Anthology of Seventeenth Century English Poetry, The Clarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe, and Poetry and Revolution. Anne Sweeney is the author of a published monograph on Southwell, Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape.

Table of Contents

[Epistle]	p. 1
To the reader	p. 3
The conception of our ladie	p. 3
Our ladies nativitye	p. 4
Our ladyes spousalls	p. 4
Our ladies salutation	p. 5
The visitation	p. 6
The nativity of Christe	p. 6
The circumsision	p. 7
The epiphanye	p. 8
The presentation	p. 8
The flight into Egipt	p. 9
Christes returne out of Egipt	p. 10
Christes childhoode	p. 10
The death of our ladie	p. 11
The assumption of our lady	p. 11
A childe my choyce	p. 12
New heaven, new warre	p. 13
The burning babe	p. 14
New prince, new pompe	p. 15
Sinnes heavy loade	p. 15
Christs bloody sweate	p. 17
Christes sleeping frendes	p. 17
Josephes amazement	p. 19
Saint Thomas of Aquines hymne read on corpus Christy daye. Lauda Sion Salvatorem	p. 21
Of the blessed sacrament of the aulter	p. 23
Saint Peters complaynte	p. 26
Saint Peters afflicted mynde	p. 28
Mary Magdalens Blushe	p. 29
Saint Peters remorse	p. 30
Davids Peccavi	p. 31
Dyers phancy turned to a sinners complainte	p. 32
A vale of teares	p. 36
The prodigall chylds soule wracke	p. 38
Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death	p. 40
Decease release	p. 41
I dye without desert	p. 42
Mans Civill Warre	p. 43
Life is but losse	p. 44
Seeke flowers of heaven	p. 45
I dye alive	p. 46
What joy to live	p. 46
Lifes deathes loves life	p. 47
At home in heaven	p. 48
Looke home	p. 49
Tymes goe by turnes	p. 50
Losse in delaye	p. 51
Loves servile lott	p. 52
Lew'd love is losse	p. 54
Loves garden grief	p. 55
Fortunes falsehoode	p. 56
From fortunes reach	p. 57
Content and ritche	p. 58
Scorne not the leaste	p. 60
The virgin Mary to Christ on the crosse	p. 61
Man to the wound in Christs side	p. 62
The author to the reader	p. 63
Saint Peters complaynt	p. 64
[Epitaphs on Lady Margaret Sackville]	p. 86
[Lines from a hymn of prudentius]	p. 87
Poema de Assumptione B[eatae] V[irginis] M[ariae]	p. 88
Filii prodigi porcos pascentis ad Patrem Epistola	p. 98
Ad deum in aff[lictione] : elegia	p. 104
Ad sanctam Catherinam, virg[inem] et mar[tyrem]	p. 105
In renovationem votorum, festis natalis Domini	p. 106
In festum Pentecostes, Anno Domini 1580, 21 Maii	p. 106
Elegia 7'... Ex luctu populus redditur ipse chalybs'	p. 108
Elegia 8 'Dic ubi nunc quod amo est! ubinam quod semper amavi?'	p. 110
Elegia 9 Umbra reginae nobiles viros docet, quid sit de rebus hisce fluxis sentiendum	p. 112
[The] Peeter Playnt	p. 114
Amenomon	p. 118
[Metrical prayer to the Virgin] 'O virgo clemens et pia'	p. 118
Poem of dubious authorship upon the image of death	p. 119
Afterword : deciphering Southwell	p. 121
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