{"product_id":"world-of-john-taylor-the-water-poet-1578-1653-the","title":"World of John Taylor the Water-Poet 1578-1653, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first full study of a self-educated popular writer who carved out a pioneering role for himself as a `media celebrity' and became a national institution.  Taylor chronicled his adventurous life and passed judgement on his age in a stream of shrewd and witty pamphlets, poems, and essays.  His writings allow us to piece together the world of a London waterman over the space of forty years, from the reign of James I to the aftermath of the civil war.  His\n\u003cbr\u003eready wit, restless ambition and bonhomie soon made him a well-known figure in the Jacobean literary world and at the royal court.  Claiming the fictitious office of `the King's Water-Poet', he\n\u003cbr\u003efashioned a way of life that straddled the elite and popular worlds.  Taylor published his thoughts - always trenchant - on everything from politics to needlework, from poetry to inland navigation, from religion and social criticism to bawdy jests.  He was a more complex and contradictory figure than is often asumed: both hedonist and moralist, a cavalier and staunch Anglican with a puritanical taste for sermons and for armed struggle against the popish antichrist.  He embodies many of the\n\u003cbr\u003econtradictions of a world that was soon to be, all to literally, at war with itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156978036974,"sku":"9780198203759","price":226.98,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198203759.jpg?v=1706258131","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/world-of-john-taylor-the-water-poet-1578-1653-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}