Poet of Revolution by McDowell, Nicholas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Texts and Abbreviations Introduction: Two University Scenes PART I: LONDON AND ST PAUL’S SCHOOL, 1608–25

1. Londiniensis

‘Chief of Cities’ The ABC of Salvation ‘Excellent Father’ Humanism and Puritanism

2. Pure Chaste Eloquence

The Grammar of Things Blotterature That Sublime Art

3. The Pursuit of Universal Learning

Eloquence and Erudition Accelerated Humanism

PART II: CAMBRIDGE AND CHRIST’S COLLEGE, 1625–9

4. Philology and Philosophy

‘Whip’t Him’ ‘Vehement Study and Emulation’ ‘Blind Illiteracy’ ‘New Rotten Sophistrie’

5. Beginning as a Poet

Fatal Vespers ‘That Little Swimming Isle’ The Nature of a Composition Satire and Libel

6. Heroes and Daemons

Miscellany Poet A Monument More Permanent Living with the Daemons Domina

7. The Poetics of Play and Devotion

‘His Hand Unstained’ Melancholicus ‘A Synchronism of Prophecies’ ‘The Lars, and Lemures Moan’

PART III: CAMBRIDGE AND HAMMERSMITH, 1629–35

8. Laudian Poet?

‘Tenet of the Apocalyptical Beast’ ‘Arminianized under his Tuition’ Mystics in Hammersmith ‘Above the Years He Had When He Wrote It’ Water and Wine, Tears and Blood

9. In Search of Patronage

‘Pluto’s Helmet’ Genius of the Wood ‘Notorious Whores’ Some Other Circe

10. Many Are the Shapes of Things Daemonic

Pagan Virtue ‘How Charming is Divine Philosophy!’ Apollo’s Lute The Beauty and The Bacchae

PART IV: HORTON AND ITALY, 1635–9

11. The Circle of Studies

Identity and Belief in 1636 ‘Subdivisions of Vice and Virtue’ ‘Censored by the Inquisitor’ A True Poem Wotton, Hales, and Eton College

12. Love and Death in ‘Lycidas’

Two Sorts of Shepherd ‘Bacchic Howlings’ Digression and Desire

13. Writing and Society in ‘Lycidas’

‘Run Amarillis Run’ Index Expurgatorius Genius of the Shore

14. Come un Virtuoso

In Circe’s Court ‘Flattery and Fustian’ Non Angli, Sed Angeli Be Our Daemon

PART V: LONDON AND ALDERSGATE STREET, 1639–42

15. Becoming a Polemicist

The Method of History ‘Brittish of the North Parts’ ‘Tearing of Hoods and Cowles’ Ancients and Moderns

16. The Poetics of Polemic

‘Struggle of Contrarieties’ A Calvinist Suit of Armour ‘Inquisitorious and Tyrannical Duncery’ Ignorance of the Beautiful

Epilogue: Towards Regicide and Epic

Notes Index