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Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, a book of which Dr John Gauden (1605–62), bishop of Worcester, claimed authorship. It purported to be mediations by Charles I, and was long so regarded; it was published ten days after his execution, 30 Jan. 1649, and appealed so strongly to popular sentiment that 47 editions of it were published, and Parliament thought it necessary to issue a reply,
Milton's Eikonoklastes (1649). (‘Eikon Basilike’ means ‘royal image’ and ‘Eikonoklastes’ ‘image breaker’.)
Eikonoklastes takes the
Eikon paragraph by paragraph in an effort to refute it: it also attacks the ‘miserable, credulous and deluded’ public with much vigour.
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Resurrecting Absence: Susan Howe's A Bibliography of the King's Book Or, Eikon Basilike and the Historically Unspoken
Magazine article from: Cultural Studies Review; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Emily Dickinson1 The author of the Eikon Basilike believed that it was 'far better...opinions contained within the Eikon Basilike to be decidedly unfashionable...published Broadview edition of the Eikon Basilike. This new text demonstrates that...
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Spiritual reading in Milton's Eikonoklastes.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...s supporters and Satan's. Eikon Basilike, which represented the late King...his reading and refutation of Eikon Basilike, Milton works to prove his argument...that it was a failure because Eikon Basilike enjoyed propagandistic success...
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Speaking for the Dead: King Charles, Anna Weamys, and the Commemorations of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...including the Pamela prayer in the Eikon Basilike (1649) was almost certain to...silence: the suggestion in the Eikon Basilike that he broke that silence to...prayer is not inserted into the Eikon Basilike primarily to provide an account...
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Commemorating Charles I - king and martyr?
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...s reign was published. The book, entitled Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in...excellent discourses and soliloquies by the name of Eikon Basilike'. By this means, the Eikon openly became the shibboleth of the new royalist...
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The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution: 1642-1660.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...split irreparable. Another useful insight concerns Eikon Basilike, the tract which united anti-Commonwealth opinion...if she had emphasized John Gauden's authorship of Eikon Basilike - now generally accepted, though he may have incorporated...
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The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt: 1555-1590.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...split irreparable. Another useful insight concerns Eikon Basilike, the tract which united anti-Commonwealth opinion...if she had emphasized John Gauden's authorship of Eikon Basilike - now generally accepted, though he may have incorporated...
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Rare volumes among thousands of sale books
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/7/2002; ; 561 words
; ...still in remarkably good condition, of The Works of King Charles the Martyr, dating from 1662. Usually known as the Eikon Basilike (the Royal image), this great volume contains the prayers and meditations of Charles I during his imprisonment...
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Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...1649 execution of Charles I in the past, to prevent the trauma from impinging on the present. Yet texts such as Eikon Basilike, a sentimental portrait of Charles ostensibly written by the king himself before his death, refused to let this...
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Milton and the muse-haters: 'Ad patrem,' 'L'Allegro/Il Penseroso,' and the ambivalences of poetry. (poet John Milton)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...mind." - Robert Graves, Wife to Mr. Milton(1) In the sixth chapter of his line-by-line refutation of the Eikon Basilike, Milton dismisses the rationale for Charles's retirement from Westminster with an argument that is peculiar, to...
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Atramentous history.(Australian history)
Magazine article from: History Australia; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Literary contestation of this sort had emerged in the middle of the seventeenth century with the publication of the Eikon Basilike of King Charles I, on 31 January 1649, the day after his execution. In London it ran to thirty-five editions...
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Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie...Eikonoklastes (1649). (‘Eikon Basilike’ means ‘royal image...x2019;.) Eikonoklastes takes the Eikon paragraph by paragraph in an effort to...
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Eikon Basilike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eikon Basilike [Gr.,=royal image], subtitled "the Portraiture of His Sacred...did in his Eikonoklastes (1649). The name is also spelled Icon Basilike and Ikon Basilike. Bibliography: See edition by P. A. Knachel (1966); bibliography...
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Eikon basilike
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Eikon basilike or King's Book was one of the most successful books ever published and established Charles I's reputation as a martyr. It...
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Ikon Basilike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ikon Basilike see Eikon Basilike .
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Icon Basilike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Icon Basilike see Eikon Basilike .
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