FHS3 T2 - (secondary) Lovelace and Herrick

What does Corns argue about dating of Hesperides? (1992)

That all except prolegomenous material was printed before end of 1647 or very shortly afterward - a period of great ambivalence for royalists; 1647 and first half of 1648 was hopeful, and Herrick probs completed Hesperides poised between remembering past horrors and anticipating imminent conflict.

What does McDowell argue about dating of Lucasta and its political allegiance? (2008)

Probs composed between end of 1646 and early 1648. Some dispute over continuity of political belief, and potentially disillusioned, somewhat neutral.

What does Corns argue about Lovelace's prison poems? (2006)

That they were a reaction to the Parliamentary policy of 'Compounding' which required defeated royalists to admit they were in the wrong. the prison poems thus emphasise intellectual freedom and read this as being undefeated - still has the freedom to believe in his cause.

What do Cain and Connolly argue about Hesperides? (2011)

They make strong a case for Herrick's involvement in the formation of Hesperides, suggesting that the disorder of the collection is consciously constructed and draws on verse miscellany of this period, which fostered communities of readers. Documents both the pre-war literary coterie culture and the role of print in forming royalist culture.

quotation - Manksy's dispute that the later poems in Hesperides are expressions of disillusionment

"a polyvocal royalism groping toward constitutional consensus" (2022: 476)

what does mansky argue about hesperides? (2022)

That Herrick is inviting a hermeneutic method which is more complex that just inducting readers into royalist ideology, by putting the various views in print.

What does corns argue about the second half of Lucasta? (2006)

that the libertinism is less secured and marked by a new cynicism

What does McDowell argue about preservation? (2008)

poetry as a way to preserve literary value against Puritan philistinism, particularly in the coterie context

What does Corns argue about noble numbers? (1992)

That it acts as a preservation of previous, Laudian, religious values and practice which are under attack and fading.

What does Corns argue about Lovelace's cavalier image? (1992)

That the role of the lover and the role of devotee to the king require the same thing - unrestricted self-sacrifice. thus, erotic love has "partisan significance" (77) for Lovelace

What does Marcus say about pastimes? (1986)

That when the book of sports was reissued by Charles I in 1633, the pastimes were increasingly tied to religion and enforcing conformity. the idea was that these would aid the maintenance of authority by allowing an outlet for 'seditious impulses' (6)

What does Marcus argue about Herrick? (1986)

That this celebration of pastimes had a specific ecclesiastical impulse, which was about preserving and reviving a dying way of life.