The Verse Nobody Knows: Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscript Collections Thursday, October 10, 2013 — 4:30pm Otto G. Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room 1300 Memorial Drive In various archives in Great Britain and the U.S. there are hundreds of manuscripts from the early modern period that contain poetic texts. Those associated with major and minor canonical authors have been accounted for, edited, and made part of literary history. Those that are anonymous or are by little-known writers have largely been ignored. This lecture deals with a selection of (mostly anonymous) rare or unique poems found in surviving manuscript poetry collections of the 16th and 17th centuries in relation to the familial, collegial, and other coterie environments in which they were written. This includes verse composed by manuscript compilers, politically dangerous or obscene texts, and texts related to scandals and topical events of local interest. Among the examples are poems concerning mother-son incest and the supposed providential revival of a hanged woman who was unjustly convicted of infanticide. Professor Marotti suggests that these neglected texts, which expand our sense of the writing practices in the period, not only need to be acknowledged in literary history, but also studied for what they reveal about the social life of early modern literary texts. Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005). He has also edited or co-edited ten collections of scholarly essays. Professor Marotti served as the editor of the journal Criticism (1986-96) and is a member of the editorial board of English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Literature Compass, and JNL: Journal of the Northern Renaissance. ________________________________________ If you no longer wish to receive emails from University of Miami Center for the Humanities please click the link below. Opt-Out ________________________________________ University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES P.O. Box 248292 Coral Gables, FL 33124 305-284-1580 [email protected] humanities.miami.edu The Verse Nobody Knows: Rare or Unique Poems in Early Modern English Manuscript Collections Thursday, October 10, 2013 — 4:30pm Otto G. Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room 1300 Memorial Drive In various archives in Great Britain and the U.S. there are hundreds of manuscripts from the early modern period that contain poetic texts. Those associated with major and minor canonical authors have been accounted for, edited, and made part of literary history. Those that are anonymous or are by little-known writers have largely been ignored. This lecture deals with a selection of (mostly anonymous) rare or unique poems found in surviving manuscript poetry collections of the 16th and 17th centuries in relation to the familial, collegial, and other coterie environments in which they were written. This includes verse composed by manuscript compilers, politically dangerous or obscene texts, and texts related to scandals and topical events of local interest. Among the examples are poems concerning mother-son incest and the supposed providential revival of a hanged woman who was unjustly convicted of infanticide. Professor Marotti suggests that these neglected texts, which expand our sense of the writing practices in the period, not only need to be acknowledged in literary history, but also studied for what they reveal about the social life of early modern literary texts. Arthur F. Marotti is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005). He has also edited or co-edited ten collections of scholarly essays. Professor Marotti served as the editor of the journal Criticism (1986-96) and is a member of the editorial board of English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Literature Compass, and JNL: Journal of the Northern Renaissance. ________________________________________ If you no longer wish to receive emails from University of Miami Center for the Humanities please click the link below. Opt-Out ________________________________________ University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES P.O. Box 248292 Coral Gables, FL 33124 305-284-1580 [email protected] humanities.miami.edu
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