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Fulke Greville's reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville's complex moulding of his authorial persona as Achates to Sidney's Aeneas, and in part to the formidable complexity of his poetry and prose. This volume seeks to vindicate Greville's 'obscurity' as an intrinsic feature of his poetic thinking, and as a privileged site of interpretation. The seventeen essays shed new light on Greville's poetry, philosophy, and dramatic work. They investigate his examination of monarchy and sovereignty; grace, salvation, and the nature of evil; the power of poetry and the vagaries of desire, and they offer a reconsideration of his reputation and afterlife in his own century, and beyond.
The volume explores the connections between poetic form and philosophy, and argues that Greville's poetic experiments and meditations on form convey penetrating, and strikingly original contributions to poetics, political thought, and philosophy. Highlighting stylistic features of his poetic style, such as his mastery of the caesura and of the feminine ending; his love of paradox, ambiguity, and double meanings; his complex metaphoricity and dense, challenging syntax, these essays reveal how Greville's work invites us to revisit and rethink many of the orthodoxies about the culture of post-Reformation England, including the shape of political argument, and the forms and boundaries of religious belief and identity.
Contents
1: Russ Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis: The Resources of Obscurity: Reappraising the Work of Fulke Greville
Part I. Philosophy and Form
2: Brian Cummings: Philosophical Poetry: Greville and the Feminine Ending
3: Kathryn Murphy: Greville's Scantlings: Architecture, Measure, and the Defence of Modular Poesy
4: Rachel White: 'Aire that once was breath': Breathing Places and Grieving Spaces in the Poetry of Fulke Greville
5: Russ Leo: 'Natures freedome', the Art of Sovereignty and Mustapha's Tragic Insolubility: Fulke Greville and Jean Bodin Among the Ottomans
6: Freya Sierhuis: Centaurs of the Mind. Imagination and Fiction-making in the Work of Fulke Greville
Part II. Faith and Form
7: Joel B. Davis: Parody and the Perversion of Grace at the Crux of Caelica
8: Kenneth Graham: Caelica and the Psalms: Greville's Depth
9: Fabio Raimondi: Giordano Bruno: Fulke Greville and the 'envious Erinys' (1583-1585)
10: Adrian Streete: Privation, Deprivation and Unprivation in Fulke Greville's Caelica
Part III. A Political Career
11: Sarah Knight: 'Not with the Ancient, nor yet with the Modern': Greville, Education and Tragedy
12: Bradley J. Irish: Fulke Greville the Courtier: Courting the Ghosts of Sidney and Essex
13: Ethan John Guagliardo: 'These Ancient Forming Powers': Fulke Greville's Dialectic of Idolatry
14: Katrin Röder: Ottoman Kingship and Resistance Against Tyranny in Fulke Greville's Mustapha
15: Andrew Hadfield: The Political World of Fulke Greville
Part IV. Afterlives
16: Gavin Alexander: Writing and the Hermeneutics of Posthumous Publication: Greville's Afterlives
17: Nigel Smith: Fulke Greville: Lord Brooke as Interregnum and Restoration Author
