English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century

Brady, Andrea

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“…iv See Pollock 1990, Long 2001, Gowing 2003, Brady 2006 See Allport 1963, 193: "The religious sentiment varies not only in depth and breadth, but also in its content and its mode of functioning. Indeed, since every personality is unique, [I have argued elsewhere that] the religious sentiment in every life must take a unique form.…”

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Pain, Partum and Prayer: The Dis-ease of Motherhood in Early Modern English Literature

Chaturvedi¹

2021

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This paper is a close study of early modern women’s poetry on childbirth and the imminent circumstances of maternal and foetal/infantile mortality in seventeenth century England. In tracing the development of women’s post-partum mental health from the medieval to the early modern period, this paper argues for a serious investment in literature composed as memoirs, poetry, diaries and funeral sermons as a means of understanding the trajectories and lacunae in women’s mental health in the early modern period. This study also argues for including the religious experience into any consideration of women’s post-partum health and therapeutic interventions. Lastly, it shows how affect studies have proved the recuperative potential in literature of consolation and mourning so that women’s writing begins to get recognized for its interventionist potential rather than a fossilized historical treatment as it has often received.

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Pain, Partum and Prayer: The Dis-ease of Motherhood in Early Modern English Literature

Chaturvedi¹

2021

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“…From there, he or she submits to an exemplary process of self-consolation which other mourners can imitate.' 32 It is no wonder, then, that amateur poets, inspired by the lofty achievements of professionals like Donne and Milton, took to the genre. The poets in the Burdett circle may have been especially influenced by Wilson in that he was Thomas Burdett's maternal grandfather.…”

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‘This rare Poetesse’: the Remains of Lady Jane Burdett

Polito

2011

Early Theatre

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One strong witness to the existence of a literary circle that included the Newdigates of Arbury Hall is the funeral sermon with eight poetic tributes, one by John Newdigate III, for Lady Jane Burdett (d. 1637), published in 1650. The Wearie Souls Wish, or, The Doves Wings is held among the Gresley family papers at the Bodleian Library. 1 Links between the Gresleys and the Burdetts are well established. According to Madan Falconer, Gresley family historian, Jane Burdett's widowed mother Elizabeth Francis married Hastings Gresley, brother of George, who contributed a poem to the above volume. 2 Further, in 1622, Bridget Burdett, daughter of Jane and Thomas Burdett, married Thomas Gresley of Drakelowe (son of George). The Burdetts were 'near neighbours' to the Newdigates; they owned Bramcote Hall, just east of Arbury Hall and Thomas Gresley was a close friend of Richard and John Newdigate from their time together at Trinity College, Oxford (1618-20). 3 Poems by close admirers and the dedication to the Burdett family chaplain Thomas Calvert's sermon proper represent Jane Burdett as the central figure of what Vivienne Larminie argues 'can only have been a literary circle'. 4 That Burdett's sphere of influence and her reputation as a learned woman had spread beyond the circle implied by the poems is demonstrated, as Larminie shows, in the esteemed Warwickshire antiquarian William Dugdale's report to Sir Simon Archer on the death of '"our good friend"' and in Dugdale's comment that Burdett was '"a Ladie of singular accomplishment"'. 5 An examination of Calvert's text and the eight verses, however, allows Jane Burdett to stand forth for the reader not only as an admirable, well-educated woman and patron of the literary and dramatic arts and as such, as Newdigate puts it in his tribute, 'the muse herself', but also as a learned intellectual and a poet in her own right. The Wearie Souls Wish was published by Thomas Broad at York thirteen years after Burdett's death. Like many printed sermons, this is a composite volume, providing supplementary material to the sermon proper. Calvert's 'This rare Poetesse' 221 7. Upon the death of the virtuous, and truly noble Lady, the Lady Jane Burdett. Who writes a Verse, that knew her worth, as I, Needs not invention but his memory. Her numerous praises, he who should rehearse, Must farr exceed an Iliad in his verse. And yet without one fiction, her true worth 5 Needs not a poets foyle to sett it forth. Birth, Beauty, Learning noble Courtesie, Whil'st she on earth did live, these could not die.

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Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain’s Lost Renaissance

Chovanec

2020

Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe

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English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century

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Pain, Partum and Prayer: The Dis-ease of Motherhood in Early Modern English Literature

Pain, Partum and Prayer: The Dis-ease of Motherhood in Early Modern English Literature

‘This rare Poetesse’: the Remains of Lady Jane Burdett

Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain’s Lost Renaissance

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