By Daniel Starza Smith
How and why did women and men ship handwritten poetry, drama, and literary prose to their buddies and social superiors within the 17th century-and what have been the results of those communications? inside this tradition of manuscript book, why did John Donne (1572-1631), an writer who tried to restrict the movement of his works, turn into the main transcribed author of his age? John Donne and the Conway Papers examines those questions in nice element. Daniel Starza Smith investigates a seventeenth-century archive, the Conway Papers, so as to clarify the connection among Donne and the archive's proprietors, the Conway kinfolk. Drawing on an incredible volume of fundamental fabric, he situates Donne's writings in the broader workings of manuscript movement, from the instant a scribe pointed out a resource textual content, during the means of transcription and onwards to the social ramifications of this literary stream.
John Donne and the Conway Papers bargains the 1st full-length research of 3 generations of the Conway family members among Elizabeth's succession and the top of the Civil struggle, explaining what the Conway Papers are and the way they have been accrued, how the archive got here to include a focus of manuscript poetry through Donne, and what the importance of this truth is, by way of seventeenth-century politics, patronage, and tradition. solutions to those questions solid new gentle at the early transmission of Donne's verse and prose. all through, John Donne and the Conway Papers emphasizes the significance of Donne's closest associates and earliest readers--such as George Garrard, Rowland Woodward, and Sir Henry Goodere--in the dissemination of his poetry. Goodere specifically emerges as a key agent within the early stream of Donne's verse, and this ebook deals the 1st sustained account of his literary actions.
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Chapter,] OED, ‘work’, v. 14a. ‘To act upon the mind or will of; to influence, prevail upon, induce, persuade’ 15 course] OED, ‘course’, n. 20, ‘way, custom, practice’ 27 \to/] Inserted above deleted word Introduction 7 After Donne’s intercession, Emmanuel Smith was duly appointed, and James sent Donne his thanks on 31 December. This is the only letter between the two men known to have survived, and conclusively demonstrates an instance of a Donne autograph manuscript travelling directly between the poet and the elder Edward Conway.
Evans argues that the political activity of the elder Conway and his contemporary court administrators could stand no comparison to titanic Elizabethan figures of state such as the Cecils. A few historians have given Conway more credit, including Hubert Reade in 1924, although his conclusion is also rather damning: Lord Conway was not a man who was distinguished as a great soldier or a great diplomatist. . Conway had not the nerve to be a leader. ]2 As I hope the following biographical chapters and my later discussions of patronage will show, recent work—on the Duke of Buckingham in particular—has helped reshape our understanding of Jacobean court politics so that we can analyse them on their own terms and not only by unflattering comparison to the semi-mythologized golden years that preceded them.
4 and sig. **1. Hadfield, ODNB. Fenton also dedicated a 1570 work to Sir Henry Sidney, A Discourse of the Civile Warres and Late Troubles in Fraunce. 1603) served as a captain under Sir William Pelham; the Pelhams and Conways fought alongside the Sidneys in the Netherlands in the 1580s and 1590s, and the two families were later joined through marriage (see Chapter 4, ‘Friends, Family, and Household Staff’). Fenton moved to Ireland in 1580 and worked as a secretary to the lord deputy, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton.
