Richard Waswo. The Fatal Mirror: Themes and Techniques in the Poetry of Fulke Greville. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1972. 181 pp. $8.50.

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Edward W. Tayler
Keyword(s):  
Fulke Greville

Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Stuart Period ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fulke Greville

This book intends to provide a comprehensive reappraisal of the work of the Renaissance poet and politician Sir Fulke Greville, whose political career stretched from the heyday of the Elizabethan age into the Stuart period. While Greville’s literary achievements have traditionally been overshadowed by those of his more famous friend Sir Philip Sidney, his oeuvre comprises a highly diverse range of works of striking force and originality, comprising a sonnet sequence, a biography of Sir Philip Sidney, a series of philosophical treatises, and two closet dramas set in the Ottoman Empire. The essays gathered in this volume investigate the intersections between poetics, poetic form, and political and religious thought in Greville’s work, arguing how they participate in all of the most important debates of the post-Reformation period, such as the nature of grace and the status of evil; the exercise of sovereignty and scope and limits of political power; and the nature of civil and religious idolatry. They examine Greville’s career as a courtier and patron, and foreground both his own concerns with the posthumous life of authors and their works, and his continuing importance during the Interregnum and Restoration periods.

‘These Ancient Forming Powers’

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Ethan John Guagliardo
Keyword(s):  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Fulke Greville ◽  
Sovereign Authority

Fulke Greville has often been described as a Calvinist and even an ‘ultra-Calvinist’, but this pole of his work stands in tension with the neo-Stoical elements of his thought, in which nature is held out as an ideal against artificiality. This chapter reassesses Greville’s political and religious poetry in light of this tension to argue that Greville uses nature as a platform to critique sovereignty as a poetic artefact, which like the idol hides its artificiality in colours of divinity. Further, Greville implicates orthodox Christianity itself in the ideology of sovereign authority, insofar as its denigration of nature serves to obviate the ‘ancient forming powers’ of sovereignty’s human creators. Nevertheless, Greville’s critique, insofar as it is based on a suspicion of art, turns against itself, such that nature, while held out as an ideal, can never be acted upon without betraying and corrupting it.

Fulke Greville the Courtier

2018 ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Irish
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fulke Greville ◽  
Intellectual Influence ◽  
Earl Of Essex

This chapter argues that Fulke Greville’s long career of royal service, and many of the literary texts that he created, were shaped by two Elizabethan court luminaries: Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Through biographical and literary analysis, I trace the political and intellectual influence of both Sidney and Essex on Greville’s career at court, with special attention to how the Sidney/Essex circle’s famed interest in Senecan neostoicism and Tacitean historiography manifest in Greville’s life and works. Though Greville outlived his former patrons by decades, it is his experience with them in the second half of Elizabeth’s reign that moulded his courtly outlook in the seventeenth century.

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

1870 ◽  
Vol s4-V (117) ◽  
pp. 324-324
Author(s):  
A. B. Grosart
Keyword(s):  
Fulke Greville
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