religious belief, or to contemplation and composition. In these terms, the writings of Marvell and Fairfax frame between them both a shared privacy and a shared lyric imagination. Those associations, the author argues, significantly support broader literary-critical interest in poetry, and, more generally, in early-modern metrical psalmody. Fairfax’s Part 2, and the volume as a whole, is brought to a conclusion with a chapter by Richard Nash, which in great detail traces the lineages of famous racehorses from the seventeenth century onwards, interleaved with close scrutiny of little-known treatise Fairfax’s on horse breeding, the original of which is held at York Minster Library. Nash shows how, through a Restoration the lineage of racehorse named ‘Spanker’, today’s racing thoroughbreds can be traced back to stud at Nun Appleton. Fairfax’s The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume provide more of the sustained modern critical attention that life and work merit. They reflect key aspects of his Fairfax’s life and career which are, nevertheless, as interconnecting as they are discrete. Their fresh accounts of reputation and legacy question assumptions about neatly demarcated Fairfax’s seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. Emerging from them is a man who confounds as often as he reinforces assumed characteristics of martial invincibility, political disengagement and literary dilettantism. Deriving from a conference marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, it is hoped that this collection of essays will highlight new directions of scholarly enquiry into multiple roles as soldier, Fairfax’s statesman, governor, husband, horseman and scholar.
religious belief, or to contemplation and composition. In these terms, the writings of Marvell and Fairfax frame between them both a shared privacy and a shared lyric imagination. Those associations, the author argues, significantly support broader literary-critical interest in Fairfax’s poetry, and, more generally, in early-modern metrical psalmody. Part 2, and the volume as a whole, is brought to a conclusion with a chapter by Richard Nash, which in great detail traces the lineages of famous racehorses from the seventeenth century onwards, interleaved with close scrutiny of Fairfax’s little-known treatise on horse breeding, the original of which is held at York Minster Library. Nash shows how, through a Restoration racehorse named ‘Spanker’, the lineage of today’s racing thoroughbreds can be traced back to Fairfax’s stud at Nun Appleton. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume provide more of the sustained modern critical attention that Fairfax’s life and work merit. They reflect key aspects of his life and career which are, nevertheless, as interconnecting as they are discrete. Their fresh accounts of Fairfax’s reputation and legacy question assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. Emerging from them is a man who confounds as often as he reinforces assumed characteristics of martial invincibility, political disengagement and literary dilettantism. Deriving from a conference marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, it is hoped that this collection of essays will highlight new directions of scholarly enquiry into Fairfax’s multiple roles as soldier, statesman, governor, husband, horseman and scholar.
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