The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

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Liverpool University Press, Jan 1, 1999 - Poetry - 293 pages
This study deals with a negleted collection of poems by Spenser which was issued in 1591, at the height of his career. While much has been written about Mother Hubbard's Tale and Muiopotmos, Dr Brown urges the reader to see that Spenser planned the whole collection with a consistent design.

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Contents

Chapter Two Forming the first garland
63
Chapter Three A goodlie bridge
99
Chapter Four Poetrys liuing tongue
133
Chapter Five Cracking the Nut?
169
Chapter Seven And leave this lamentable
255
Appendix UraniaAstraea and Divine Elisa
271
Index
289
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Richard Danson Brown is a Lecturer in Literature at the Open University.