Bracket and voice: Drummond of Hawthornden’s lunular poetics

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buir.contributor.authorHart, Patrick
dc.citation.epage59en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage39en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber12en_US
dc.contributor.authorHart, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-02T09:13:42Z
dc.date.available2021-03-02T09:13:42Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractTaking the proliferation of brackets in his Petrarchan verse as its starting point, this essay argues for a reevaluation of William Drummond of Hawthornden’s poetic voice. While even his admirers have tended to characterise his sonnets as operating at a single high rhetorical pitch, Drummond’s deployment of lunulae and crotchets serves to complicate the voice that emerges both from individual poems and from the collection as a whole, establishing a ‘lunar’ counterpart to the sequence’s Apollonian magniloquence, a sottovoce that functions as a distinctive correlative of the Petrarchan locus amoenus. Moreover, in setting ear against eye and text against tongue, Drummond’s brackets also pose difficult questions regarding what it might mean to talk of the text’s ‘voice’ at all. Attending to how Drummond’s punctuation establishes a radical incommensurability of melic and opsic, while setting the readings that emerge within the context of recent scholarship on the role of the voice in early modern reading practices, also means reframing Drummond’s relationship to the Baroque. Rather than focusing on the extremes to which he takes the Petrarchan conceit, we start to see Drummond as belonging to the early seventeenth-century transnational Baroque associated by historians such as Peter Burke with a crisis of representation. This recontextualisation might ultimately point (this essay concludes) towards Petrarch’s own proto-Baroque tendencies.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1756-5634
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75700
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherAssociation for Scottish Literary Studiesen_US
dc.source.titleScottish Literary Reviewen_US
dc.subjectWilliam Drummond of Hawthorndenen_US
dc.subjectScottishen_US
dc.subject17th centuryen_US
dc.subjectPetrarchan poetryen_US
dc.subjectBroqueen_US
dc.subjectPoetic voiceen_US
dc.subjectBracketsen_US
dc.titleBracket and voice: Drummond of Hawthornden’s lunular poeticsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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