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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... figures in a tradition of writing that was felt to express the very essence of the English nation . The wide readership of ... figure of Britomart as an ' Ideal of Woman ' : She is a real woman , propria persona , not merely the usual ...
... figures in a tradition of writing that was felt to express the very essence of the English nation . The wide readership of ... figure of Britomart as an ' Ideal of Woman ' : She is a real woman , propria persona , not merely the usual ...
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... figure of Mutabilitie , who argues that Jove's right to rule the universe is no more valid than her demand that the Titanic forces of chaos be given their due , is judged to be false by Nature . But the unfinished fragment suggests ...
... figure of Mutabilitie , who argues that Jove's right to rule the universe is no more valid than her demand that the Titanic forces of chaos be given their due , is judged to be false by Nature . But the unfinished fragment suggests ...
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... figures and leaders : sovereigns , pastors , wise old men , young men in love ' ( pp . 79-80 ) . Pastoral , as George Puttenham , argued , is a convenient means of discussing more obvious and dangerous subjects by allegorical or devious ...
... figures and leaders : sovereigns , pastors , wise old men , young men in love ' ( pp . 79-80 ) . Pastoral , as George Puttenham , argued , is a convenient means of discussing more obvious and dangerous subjects by allegorical or devious ...
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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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