Abstract:

This article explores Anne Southwell’s understanding of the human and specifically female responsibility in making knowledge and contact with the divine, acts that she figures through cosmic movement and, crucially, poetic forms. For Southwell, moving through—and discovering one’s place in—space is part and parcel of poetic creation in its broadest sense: writing divinely informed verse, realising one’s self-potential, and understanding God’s work. The article considers Southwell’s approach to writing physical and astronomical encounters via a series of recurring images: the wax ball or tablet, a pliant material ready to take impressions from above; and acts of flight and celestial revolution. Between them, Southwell’s methods for astronomical exploration and poetic gain reveal the capability of poetry and its expansive opportunities for the female writer.

摘要：

本文探讨了安妮·索思韦尔对人类，特别是女性在获取知识和与神圣接触方面的责任的理解，以及她通过宇宙运动以及最重要的是诗歌形式所描绘的行为。对于索思韦尔来说，穿越空间并发现自己在空间中的位置是最广泛意义上的诗歌创作的重要组成部分：写出神圣的诗篇，实现一个人的自我潜力，并理解上帝的工作。这篇文章探讨了索斯韦尔通过一系列重复出现的图像来书写物理和天文遭遇的方法：蜡球或石碑，一种柔韧的材料，随时可以从上方留下印象；以及飞行和天体公转的行为。在他们之间，绍斯韦尔的天文探索和诗歌收获的方法揭示了诗歌的能力及其为女性作家提供的广阔机会。