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Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality : Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism

Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of IntertextualitySeventeenth-century Royalism and Classical Literature should be double-weighted because its thesis is particularly extensive and complex, demonstrating the political diversity of royalist poets in the Civil War, their sophisticated imitation of classical poetry, and the way political ideas inform their diverse theories of imitation. It involved analysis of a considerable body of material, including classical, sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century primary sources in English, Italian and Latin, and current debates on history and on classics as well as on Civil War poetry. The argument necessitated a lengthy period of study of these varied and extensive topics.