'Lords of Wine and Oile'

Community and Conviviality in the Poetry of Robert Herrick
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960477-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

'Lords of Wine and Oile' provides a long overdue book-length appraisal of the major seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick. The collection reads his poetry in the context of his literary, musical, political, and religious affiliations and looks at how he both presents and constructs ideals of community through his work. Herrick is best known for his poetry's grace, good humour, and tolerant inclusiveness, characteristics at odds with the publication of his work close to the end of the Civil Wars. This collection places Herrick's poetry in a much wider chronological context beginning with his early career as a manuscript poet in Jacobean London. Contributors present original research to situate Herrick within the coteries of Ben Jonson and Thomas Stanley, uncover the Royalism of Herrick's publishers, and identify the printer of Hesperides. Others examine how the context of publication in 1648 gives a political colouring to Herrick's imitations of Ovid and Anacreon and how Herrick, like Katherine Philips, uses the theme of friendship and the mode of print to construct an idea of the autonomous author. Two essays explore Herrick's musical collaborations with Henry Lawes, the first such work since 1976, and analyse the influence of musical settings and group performance on the interpretation of Herrick's lyrics. The collection also showcases an important debate on the challenges posed by Herrick's work, which consciously rejects competitive anxiety and narrative momentum, for historicist and postmodernist literary criticism. Contributors include Stella Achilleos, Line Cottegnies, John Creaser, Achsah Guibbory, Stacey Jocoy, Leah Marcus, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Nicholas McDowell, Michelle O'Callaghan, Graham Parry, Syrithe Pugh, and Richard Wistreich.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of early modern poetry

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connolly, Ruth

Cain, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- A Note on Quotations

- List of Illustrations

- Contributors

- Introduction: Herrick's Communities of Manuscript and Print

- 1: Katharine Eisaman Maus: Why Read Herrick?

- 2: John Creaser: 'Jocond his Muse was': Celebration and Virtuosity in Herrick

- 3: Leah S. Marcus: Conviviality Interrupted or, Herrick and Postmodernism

- 4: Michelle O'Callaghan: 'Those Lyrick Feasts, made at the Sun, the Dog, the triple Tunne': Going Clubbing with Ben Jonson

- 5: Nicholas McDowell: Herrick and the Order of the Black Riband: Literary Community in Civil War London and the Publication of Hesperides (1648)

- 6: Line Cottegnies: 'Leaves of Fame': Katherine Philips and Robert Herrick's Shared Community

- 7: Richard Wistreich: 'Thou and Ile sing to make these dull Shades merry': Herrick's Charon Dialogues

- 8: Stella Achilleos: Ile bring thee Herrick to Anacreon:' Robert Herrick's Anacreontics and the Politics of Conviviality in Hesperides

- 9: Syrithe Pugh: Supping with Ghosts: Imitation and Immortality in Herrick

- 10: Stacey Jocoy: 'Touch but thy Lire (my Harrie)':Henry Lawes and the Mirthful Music of Hesperides

- 11: Graham Parry: His Noble Numbers

- 12: Achsah Guibbory: Afterword:Herrick's Community, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Uses of Historicism

- Further Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cain, Tom
Tom Cain has recently retired as Professor of Early Modern Literature from the School of English in Newcastle University. He has published widely on Herrick and Donne and edited Poetaster for the Revels series, Sejanus for the Cambridge edition of Jonson's Works, the Poetry of Mildmay Fane for Manchester University Press and is currently co-editing Robert Herrick: The Complete Poetry for Oxford University Press.

Connolly, Ruth
Ruth Connolly is a lecturer in seventeenth-century literature at the School of English, Newcastle University. She has published on early modern women's writing and on the influence of Herrick's experience of manuscript circulation on the construction of Hesperides. She is currently co-editing Robert Herrick: The Complete Poetry for Oxford University Press.

Ruth Connolly is a lecturer in seventeenth-century literature at the School of English, Newcastle University. She has published on early modern women's writing and on the influence of Herrick's experience of manuscript circulation on the construction of Hesperides. She is currently co-editing Robert Herrick: The Complete Poetry for Oxford University Press.

Tom Cain has recently retired as Professor of Early Modern Literature from the School of English in Newcastle University. He has published widely on Herrick and Donne and edited Poetaster for the Revels series, Sejanus for the Cambridge edition of Jonson's Works, the Poetry of Mildmay Fane for Manchester University Press and is currently co-editing Robert Herrick: The Complete Poetry for Oxford University Press.