Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

Abstract

comptes rendus 233 triumphant humanist emblems of Reformation orthodoxy and Renaissance scholarship unanimously concerned with accurate interpretation of the word, and past as prologue to the present.The book's eighth chapter regards John Donne's "An Anatomy of the World" (the "First Anniversary") and its hyperbolic commemoration of Elizabeth Drury's death in light of other alchemical remembrances of women penned that year in funeral sermons and memorials.The final chapter assesses the fundamental significance of language to virtually everything in Shakespeare's The Tempest, thereby reemphasizing the centrality of the word to the entire year's textual production.Prefaced with a detailed chronology of events and equipped with an appendix of the year's printed texts, 1611 offers readers a limited but intriguing glimpse of some of the thematic interconnections among a group of printed texts published in London over the course of a year.While it is unlikely to unsettle many received ideas or to satisfy readers craving a richer account of early modern English textual culture, 1611 offers an engaging primer for students and scholars interested in exploring the thematic connections among a temporally gathered grouping of texts.

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