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Recovering a Restoration Scribal Poet: The Life and Work of Robert Wolseley, with Notes on His Association with Rochester.
- Source :
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Huntington Library Quarterly . Winter2016, Vol. 79 Issue 4, p677-704. 28p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The present essay aims to retrieve the "minor poet and wit" Robert Wolseley from obscurity, uncovering new information about his court career and shifting political allegiance, his output as a poet, and his association with the Earl of Rochester. In particular, Paul Davis argues that Wolseley makes a credible candidate for authorship of part or all of the "Allusion to Tacitus" (1679-80). The essay concludes by reconstructing Wolseley's poetic canon, identifying some eighteen items for which he was almost certainly responsible, either as sole author or in collaboration. These include a number of poetically creditable and historically significant pieces; Robert Wolseley emerges as a Restoration poet overdue scholarly attention not only because of his prestigious literary connections but also in his own right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *POETS
*AUTHORSHIP
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00187895
- Volume :
- 79
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Huntington Library Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 120238459
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2016.0032