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Healy, Margaret; Healy, T. S.

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“…22 As the Healys observe, Donne's sermons "wonderfully captur[e] the mingling of spiritual ideas with material forms". 23 This is certainly the case. But the spiritual-material "making" foregrounded in Donne's 1622 Easter Monday sermon is influenced by a Protestant partiality.…”

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“…According to Margaret Healy and Thomas Healy, "making" in the early modern period pertained both to the composition of literary works and to the multilayered process of literary production: the material scrivening, compiling and recording of texts. 8 In 1530 the dictionary compiler, John Palsgrave, wrote: "I Compyle I make a boke as an auctour dothe". 9 Palsgrave juxtaposes "Compyle", "make" and "auctour" to foreground his role as a compiler.…”

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The poetics of “making” in the manuscript writings of Constance Aston Fowler

Chowdhury

2019

The Seventeenth Century

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This article argues that the manuscript writings and compilations of the Catholic gentlewoman, Constance Aston Fowler (died 1664), offer a rich and hitherto overlooked corpus for broadening our understanding of the tradition of early modern English poetic "making" and poesis. During the 1630s, Fowler wrote a series of letters to her brother, the poet, Herbert Aston, and also compiled a manuscript miscellany at her home in Staffordshire. By analyzing the woman-inclusive and pro-Catholic ways in which Fowler and her coterie reworked the theories of poesis foregrounded by hegemonic male writers such as Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and John Donne, this essay proposes that the culture of early modern Anglophone poetic "making" was not simply male, humanist and Protestant, but female, provincial and Catholic.

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confidence: 95%

Section: Defining Literary "Making"mentioning

confidence: 99%