Versions of Baroque: European Literature in the Seventeenth Century

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Greene ◽  
Frank J. Warnke
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
European Literature

Versions of Baroque: European Literature in the Seventeenth Century

1976 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Alan M. Boase ◽  
Frank J. Warnke
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
European Literature

The European Marvell

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Nigel Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
Luis De Gongora ◽  
Cross Lingual

This chapter investigates Marvell’s poetry in the context of three aspects of seventeenth-century European poetry and in light of Marvell’s own connections with the continental Europe of his lifetime, and his interest in European literature in Latin and the vernacular languages. The chapter argues that our understanding of Marvell is far better served by regarding his enterprises as poet, prose writer, and political agent as a part of the particular literary power relationships and the political role of literature that pertained in continental Europe, in many ways differing from English situations. Topics discussed include the patronage and veneration of European poets, the cross-lingual arenas of poetic contest in times of international conflict, and the broader significance of the appeal to Marvell of European poetry, exemplified in the case of the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.

Levellerism in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. K. Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Radical Movements

This article explores the connections between the seventeenth-century Leveller movement and the democratic radicalism of the period 1790 to roughly 1840. At first glance the two appear to have much in common. Both were concerned with the extension of the franchise, the idea of a written constitution, and the equality of citizens before the law. Various commentators on the subject, including some historians, have suggested that such a continuity does indeed exist. Unfortunately this conclusion has been based for the most part on vague connections indicating a lack of solid research on this topic. An exception in this regard is the 1962 essay of Olivier Lutaud which traced many of the linkages of Leveller ideas and phrases in European literature.By contrast historians of seventeenth-century England have tended towards a too ready acceptance of a discontinuity between the Levellers and the democrats of the post-1788 era. They have been content to consign the Levellers to “relative oblivion” and “near-oblivion,” and to assert, quite erroneously, that Leveller pamphlets were not reprinted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the same time we must be aware that the historian of early nineteenth-century radical movements is not confronted with a powerful body of evidence indicating strong Leveller-radical connections. The influence of Levellerism on subsequent radical-democratic movements was subtle and somewhat oblique in nature.

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