George Sandys : travel, colonialism and tolerance in the seventeenth century
"The poet George Sandys is one of the most interesting figures of the late English Renaissance. At a time when political and religious views were becoming increasingly polarized and extreme, Sandys's work is consistently distinguished by its tolerance and moderation. As a traveller in the Levant Sandys experienced an extraordinary meeting of European and more exotic Oriental churches for the great Easter celebrations at Jerusalem, a brief moment of harmony within a world of religious strife. As a colonialist in Virginia he and his colleagues pursued a lenient, proselytizing policy which nearly cost the colony its very existence. In his translations of Ovid and Virgil he reflected deeply on the nature of imperialism. He won limited favour at the Caroline court, but he became an increasingly outspoken critic of absolutist government and found a congenial niche at Great Tew with William Chillingworth and Lord Falkland. His last work, a translation of a Latin religious play by Hugo Grotius, was the first in a series of literary attacks by moderate Royalists on Archbishop Laud." "This book, the first recent examination of his life and work, sheds new light on an unjustly neglected figure, and on the literature of religious and political moderation prior to the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
9780859917506, 0859917509
437771520
The origins of a liberal outlook
Political and religious attitudes in Sandys's a relation
The Virginia Company and Christian imperialism
Sandys in America
The Caroline court and Great Tew
panegryic and admonition
Sandys's psalms and laudianism
Parables of scepticism and toleration Sandys's great Tew years