The naked babe and Robert Southwell

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Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-56

  Baynham, Matthew ^a  

^a BISHOP GROSSETESTE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249512223     PISSN: 00293970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nq/50.1.55     Document Type: Note

References (4)

1. Garry Wills, Witches and Jesuits (New York and Oxford, 1995), 134-5.
2. The Metaphysical Poets, ed. by Helen Gardner (Oxford, 1957), 2nd edn (1961), 7 n.
3. The Poems of Robert Southwell, S.J. ed. James H. McDonald and Nancy Pollard Brown (Oxford, 1967), xciv.
4. Jean Robertson, 'Robert Southwell's "New heaven, new warre', Huntington Library Quarterly (1982) 45, 82-4. Gardner included both The burning Babe and New heaven, new warre in her selection: which is interesting, since she also wrote very specifically on the naked babe in Macbeth in response to Cleanth Brooks, but did not, so far as I am aware, comment on any similarities.