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Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription »

Book cover image of Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription by Gerard Kilroy

Authors: Gerard Kilroy
ISBN-13: 9780754652557, ISBN-10: 0754652556
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Gerard Kilroy

Book Synopsis

Kilroy (English, King Edward's School, Bath, England) discusses the transmission of private handwritten texts related to Campion (1540-81) after his death. He reveals a network that stretched from the Court to Warwickshire and East Anglia and crossed the confessional boundaries of Catholic and Protestant. John Harrington and Thomas Tresham emerge as central figures in the effort to keep Campion's memory alive. Included is the first printed text and translation of his Virgilian epic Why Doe I Use My Paper, Ynke and Pen. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents

Introduction : between the lines1
1Darkness within : letters from prison13
2Edmund Campion : 'sweetly in verse'39
3'Paper, ynke and pen' : a literary Memoria59
4Sir John Harington : 'Wise pretender of foolery'89
5Within these walls : the interior life of Sir Thomas Tresham121
Transcription IEdmund Campion's virgilian epic149
Transcription IIWhy doe I use my paper, ynke and pen'195
Transcription IIIFour decades : 'all my ydle epigrams'209

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