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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... at this time . Publication of correspondence with Harvey in two volumes : Three proper , and wittie , familiar Letters and Two other , very 1581 1582 1582-8 1583 1584 1586 1587 1588 1588-99 commendable xvii CHRONOLOGY.
... at this time . Publication of correspondence with Harvey in two volumes : Three proper , and wittie , familiar Letters and Two other , very 1581 1582 1582-8 1583 1584 1586 1587 1588 1588-99 commendable xvii CHRONOLOGY.
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... Letters , of the same mens writing . Mention of The Fairie Queene for the first time , and of other lost works ( Epithalamion Thamesis , Dying Pellicane , Nine Comedies ) . Aug. 12 Arrives in Dublin having become secretary to Arthur ...
... Letters , of the same mens writing . Mention of The Fairie Queene for the first time , and of other lost works ( Epithalamion Thamesis , Dying Pellicane , Nine Comedies ) . Aug. 12 Arrives in Dublin having become secretary to Arthur ...
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... letter refers to Arthur , Lancelot and Avalon , and to an episode that does not feature in Spenser's poem , means that Owen was undoubtedly thinking of Malory's Morte D'Arthur rather than The Faerie Queene . But this only serves to ...
... letter refers to Arthur , Lancelot and Avalon , and to an episode that does not feature in Spenser's poem , means that Owen was undoubtedly thinking of Malory's Morte D'Arthur rather than The Faerie Queene . But this only serves to ...
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... letters at the turn of the century as it is a meditation on Spenser himself.16 Spenser could have been an even greater poet had he paid attention to his surroundings and learnt from them . The bucolic English poet would have learnt from ...
... letters at the turn of the century as it is a meditation on Spenser himself.16 Spenser could have been an even greater poet had he paid attention to his surroundings and learnt from them . The bucolic English poet would have learnt from ...
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... Letters , ed . Harold Owen and John Bell ( London : Oxford University Press , 1967 ) , p . 457 . 2 Owen undoubtedly has in mind the description of the barge of Phaedria ( FQ , II , vi ) , or the passage of Guyon and the Palmer onto ...
... Letters , ed . Harold Owen and John Bell ( London : Oxford University Press , 1967 ) , p . 457 . 2 Owen undoubtedly has in mind the description of the barge of Phaedria ( FQ , II , vi ) , or the passage of Guyon and the Palmer onto ...
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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