The Cambridge Companion to SpenserAndrew Hadfield The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser. |
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... JOHN N. KING II Spenser and classical traditions COLIN BURROW 162 180 200 217 12 Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry 237 ROLAND GREENE 13 Spenser's influence 252 PAUL ALPERS Index 272 page 80 87 ི ཛ ང 91 91 95 CONTRIBUTORS X LIST ...
... JOHN N. KING II Spenser and classical traditions COLIN BURROW 162 180 200 217 12 Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry 237 ROLAND GREENE 13 Spenser's influence 252 PAUL ALPERS Index 272 page 80 87 ི ཛ ང 91 91 95 CONTRIBUTORS X LIST ...
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... John N. King , The Ohio State University Richard A. McCabe , Merton College , Oxford Willy Maley , University of Glasgow Anne Lake Prescott , Barnard College , University of Columbia Richard Rambuss , Emory University Susanne Wofford ...
... John N. King , The Ohio State University Richard A. McCabe , Merton College , Oxford Willy Maley , University of Glasgow Anne Lake Prescott , Barnard College , University of Columbia Richard Rambuss , Emory University Susanne Wofford ...
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... Proceedings of the British Academy John Milton , Paradise Lost Publications of the Modern Language Society of America The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser , ed . J. C. PQ RES RP RQ SC Sidney , Apology SEL Smith xiv ABBREVIATIONS.
... Proceedings of the British Academy John Milton , Paradise Lost Publications of the Modern Language Society of America The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser , ed . J. C. PQ RES RP RQ SC Sidney , Apology SEL Smith xiv ABBREVIATIONS.
Contents
Spensers life and career | 13 |
Historical contexts Britain and Europe | 37 |
Ireland policy poetics and parody | 60 |
Spensers Pastorals The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe | 79 |
The Faerie Queene Books IIII | 106 |
The Faerie Queene Books IVVII | 124 |
Spensers shorter poems | 143 |
Spensers languages writing in the ruins of English | 162 |
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