Oliver Wort
Biographic Data
| ID | 8504737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Wort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Wort |
| SIGNATURE | WORT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making Poetry from Prose
At least thirty of the epigrams that comprise Robert Herrick’s Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine (1648) are known to have been based on John Gregory’s Notes and Observations (1646). Having been pieced together out of Gregory’s prose, and lacking in any divine inspiration, these poems—or paraphrases—are reviled in criticism. Moving beyond the particular esthetic judgment, however, a comparison of Herrick’s Gregory-poems with their pro…
Marian Literary Culture
Posterity has not always looked kindly on Mary I, England's first queen, her reign once judged to have been as sterile as her body.1 It is a crass image, but if Mary was anything other than just a religious bigot, then she has been thought a pathetic bigot, a tragic figure to be pitied. Abandoned by her father, rejected by her husband, her womb as barren as her coffers and her nation's fields, Mary's achievements were always going to be few and h…
Closing the Painful Book
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Closing the Painful Book
Marian Literary Culture
Posterity has not always looked kindly on Mary I, England's first queen, her reign once judged to have been as sterile as her body.1 It is a crass image, but if Mary was anything other than just a religious bigot, then she has been thought a pathetic bigot, a tragic figure to be pitied. Abandoned by her father, rejected by her husband, her womb as barren as her coffers and her nation's fields, Mary's achievements were always going to be few and h…
Making Poetry from Prose
At least thirty of the epigrams that comprise Robert Herrick’s Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine (1648) are known to have been based on John Gregory’s Notes and Observations (1646). Having been pieced together out of Gregory’s prose, and lacking in any divine inspiration, these poems—or paraphrases—are reviled in criticism. Moving beyond the particular esthetic judgment, however, a comparison of Herrick’s Gregory-poems with their pro…
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