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- Title
'Late' Losses and the Temporality of Early Modern Nostalgia.
- Authors
Schwyzer, Philip
- Abstract
For more than a century following the English Reformation, poets and historians continued to refer to the dissolution of the monasteries and the destruction of Church monuments as 'late' or recent events. The insistence on 'lateness', as in Shakespeare's 'bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang', signals the writer's rfu sa l to allow the moment of loss to recede in time. The destruction of Bishop Grandisson's tomb in Exeter Cathedral provides a striking example. Probably destroyed in the 1530s, its desecration was referred to in a series of texts from the 1580s through the 1660s as a 'late' event.
- Subjects
ENGLISH Reformation; NOSTALGIA in literature; ENGLISH poets, Early modern, 1500-1700; DETERIORATION of buildings; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; EVELYN, John, 1620-1706
- Publication
Parergon, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 2, p97
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2016.0077