Revising the siege of York
From royalist to Cromwellian in Payne Fisher’s Marston Moor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11492703 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Moul (0000-0002-9550-1216, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-331 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Seventeenth Century (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-117X • E-ISSN: 2050-4616 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0268117x.2016.1200997 |
| OpenAlex | W2519874077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This is the first article dedicated to Payne (or Fitzpayne) Fisher (1615/6–1693), Cromwell’s forgotten laureate, who had a successful career as a Latin poet during the short-lived English Commonwealth (1649–1653) and Protectorate (1653–1659). The article examines in detail the four surviving versions of Fisher’s breakthrough success, the long Latin poem Marston Moor, first published in print in 1650, with a revised edition in 1656, but circulated in a much shorter manuscript form – of which two closely related examples are extant – from around 1648. Fisher fought at Marston Moor on the losing royalist side, and this remarkable poem evolves from a royalist elegy in its earliest versions, to a panegyric of Parliamentarian military strength effective enough to secure Fisher a series of commissions throughout the 1650s. The article charts each stage of these revisions, and the poetic strategies of the work, with a particular focus upon Fisher’s use of epic similes
Ancient history · Art · Elegiac · Elegy · Literature · Poetry · Politics · Royalist · Siege · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |