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Thomas Carew was the poetic arbiter elegantiae of the court of Charles I. He gave one last witty spin to the tradition of Petrarchan lyric, polishing and resetting the traditional conceits of love poe...
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In the following essay, King probes Carew's use of “conventional poetic rhetoric for unconventional purposes” and explores “Carew's attempt to impose a civilized ord...
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In the following essay, Hannaford discusses the complex dramatic pose of the speaker in Carew's “To A. L. Perswasions to Love.”
A concern for fashioning the self as a dramatic cha...
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In the following essay, Barbour assesses Carew's relationship to the poetic values of the Caroline era.
This essay explores three related constituents of Thomas Carew's poetry. The first...
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In the following essay, Benet contends that Carew appropriated the absolutist rhetoric of Kings Charles and James in envisioning himself as sole arbiter of aesthetic judgment.
Nothing seems further fr...
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In the following essay, Hannaford describes “A Rapture” as “a kind of miniaturized masque” that “reveals tensions in [the aesthetic, social, and cultural values ...
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In the following essay, Parfitt contends that Carew should not simply be categorized as a Cavalier poet and instead emphasizes Carew's association with Jonson and Donne and his revitalization o...
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In the following essay, Martz surveys Carew's poetry, noting its “Cavalier elegance, its Mannerist styling.” Martz continues by observing Carew's wit, influences, critical ...
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In the following essay, Rauber examines the qualities that distinguish Carew from the other Cavalier poets, calling him “the most purely intellectual poet of the early seventeenth century. ...
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In the following essay, Johnson analyzes Carew's erotic poem “A Rapture.”
“A Rapture” was in its day a very shocking poem. Not only did it provoke rebuttals from poe...
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In the following essay, Long and MacLean summarize Carew's verse in order to evaluate his wit and poetic talent.
Thomas Carew's literary reputation has undergone some reassessment in rec...
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In the following essay, Parker analyzes Carew's “To my friend G. N. from Wrest,” maintaining that the poem “represents the crucial middle term between Jonson's initi...
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In the following essay, Anselment interprets Carew's qualified and at times ironic praise of Gustavus Adolphus in his poem “In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King o...
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In the following essay, Fitzmaurice studies Carew's poetic thoughts on death and the artificiality of language.
Sincerity, inasmuch as it is allied with or derived from intention, is likely to ...
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Thomas Carew
Critical Essay by Bruce King
