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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... examples being Pope , Keats , Tennyson and Hopkins . Moreover , as these two stories indicate , Spenser was not simply ... example and teaching of a noble minded father , to form a high ideal of manly perfection ' . Men could teach women ...
... examples being Pope , Keats , Tennyson and Hopkins . Moreover , as these two stories indicate , Spenser was not simply ... example and teaching of a noble minded father , to form a high ideal of manly perfection ' . Men could teach women ...
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... examples is that Spenser's work has often been read in diametrically opposed ways , or as a series of paradoxes - one of ... example , trying to make sense of his admiration for Spenser as a poet and his hatred of Spenser's share in the ...
... examples is that Spenser's work has often been read in diametrically opposed ways , or as a series of paradoxes - one of ... example , trying to make sense of his admiration for Spenser as a poet and his hatred of Spenser's share in the ...
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... example , Edwin A. Greenlaw , Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1932 ) ; Alastair Fowler , ' Spenser and War ' , in J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring , eds . , War , Literature and ...
... example , Edwin A. Greenlaw , Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1932 ) ; Alastair Fowler , ' Spenser and War ' , in J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring , eds . , War , Literature and ...
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... : Cambridge University Press , 1993 ) . 35 See , for example , ' Bog Oak ' , in New Selected Poems , 1966-1987 ( London : Faber , 1990 ) , pp . 19–20 . I RICHARD RAMBUSS Spenser's life and career ' Who knowes 12 ANDREW HADFIELD.
... : Cambridge University Press , 1993 ) . 35 See , for example , ' Bog Oak ' , in New Selected Poems , 1966-1987 ( London : Faber , 1990 ) , pp . 19–20 . I RICHARD RAMBUSS Spenser's life and career ' Who knowes 12 ANDREW HADFIELD.
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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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