Nevitt, M. (2024) Milton’s Sonnet XIV and the poetry of George Thomason. Electronic British Library Journal, 2023. 8. ISSN 1478-0259
Abstract
It has long been recognised that George Thomason was well connected, and that his friends included men like John Milton. This essay uses the sonnet that Milton wrote in honour of Thomason’s wife as the springboard for a discussion of a neglected aspect of the Thomason tracts: its poetry. It thus reflects on the fact that Thomason was not just interested in news and polemical pamphleteering, but also preserved a vital body of contemporary verse, in both print and manuscript. This dimension of his collecting highlights that topicality, rather than content, genre or format was central to the process by which he sought to document the tumultuous times through which he lived, and this chapter demonstrates the vital importance that Thomason’s collection has for comprehending English literature during the mid-seventeenth century.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which allows others to redistribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work in any medium or format, even commercially, as long as they credit the author and the source of the original work. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Thomason Tracts; John Milton; Catharine Thomason; George Thomason |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Feb 2024 12:09 |
Last Modified: | 29 Feb 2024 12:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | British Library |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.23636/pr3v-az62 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:209714 |