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This article brings into focus the royalist experience of political defeat and cultural recovery in mid-seventeenth-century England. It shows how royalist writers developed a polemically charged psalmic poetics that allowed them to appropriate the discursive authority of their Puritan enemies, reestablish their own cultural standing, and prepare the way for religious and political return. Several writers who found common cause in 1650s royalist poetics appear in these pages, including Izaak Walton, Thomas Stanley, Jeremy Taylor, Henry King, and the author(s) of the 1649 Eikon Basilike. Royalist writers with more divided responses to psalmic polemics appear here as well, including the episcopal divine, Henry Hammond, and the Davidic poet, Abraham Cowley. The poet, psalmist, and polemicist John Milton is an important presence throughout: his Eikonoklastes seems aware of his opponents’ polemical project, as do his 1653 psalms, and Paradise Lost itself may respond to what he once derided as royalist “Psalmistry.”
This article brings into focus the royalist experience of political defeat and cultural recovery in mid-seventeenth-century England. It shows how royalist writers developed a polemically charged psalmic poetics that allowed them to appropriate the discursive authority of their Puritan enemies, reestablish their own cultural standing, and prepare the way for religious and political return. Several writers who found common cause in 1650s royalist poetics appear in these pages, including Izaak Walton, Thomas Stanley, Jeremy Taylor, Henry King, and the author(s) of the 1649 Eikon Basilike. Royalist writers with more divided responses to psalmic polemics appear here as well, including the episcopal divine, Henry Hammond, and the Davidic poet, Abraham Cowley. The poet, psalmist, and polemicist John Milton is an important presence throughout: his Eikonoklastes seems aware of his opponents’ polemical project, as do his 1653 psalms, and Paradise Lost itself may respond to what he once derided as royalist “Psalmistry.”
Les liens entre musique et texte dans les oratorios de Haendel est complexe car religion et politique y interagissent de façon réciproque. C’est tout particulièrement le cas dans le Occasional Oratorio (Oratorio “de circonstance”), écrit alors que le duc de Cumberland combattait la rébellion jacobite de 1745-46 et que les Anglais craignaient que la succession de Hanovre, l’Église d’Angleterre et la constitution ne fussent sérieusement menacés. Une partie importante du livret de Newburgh Hamilton est fondée sur la traduction métrique par Milton de psaumes choisis. Le présent article étudie les aspects politiques et esthétiques des psaumes 1-8 de Milton en effectuant une comparaison entre la date de leur composition, 1653, et la situation politique de 1746. Il analyse la façon selon laquelle Hamilton s’attacha à traiter la poésie ou les prières de Milton en les choisissant, les réarrangeant et les combinant afin de constituer un nouveau genre (dramatique) qui servit de support à la musique de Haendel. Le contexte du livret et les circonstances de la composition constituent une partie intégrante de l’expérience complexe, émotive et esthétique, de la représentation de l’œuvre de sorte que tous ces éléments doivent être pris en compte si l’on veut essayer de comprendre ce que le public de l’époque pouvait entendre, lire, se rappeler et mettre en relation.
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