… that in Richard's times A man was hang'd for very honest rhymes. Consult the Statute: quart. I think it is, Edwardi sext. or prim. & quint. Eliz. [150] See Libels, Satires -- here you have it -- read. P. Libels and Satires! lawless …
… portrait of a ‘more vigorous, colourful and animated’ individual, a ‘smart, streetwise creature – restless, pugnacious, sexually adventurous.’ 3 As a result, it is impossible today not to read Keats’s work within a nexus of social contexts, …
… his contradictory attitudes towards sociability also seem to have stemmed from particular anxieties about manliness and sexual capacity. In a number of his acclaimed earlier works, he aligns himself with oppressed female figures, or implies …