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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... poet , was recovering from shell shock at the 13th Casualty Clearing Station in Amiens , France , he wrote to his mother , describing a pleasant spring day out in the nearby countryside . Owen carefully contrasted the horror of the ...
... poet , was recovering from shell shock at the 13th Casualty Clearing Station in Amiens , France , he wrote to his mother , describing a pleasant spring day out in the nearby countryside . Owen carefully contrasted the horror of the ...
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... poets of significance since the seventeenth century , who read Spenser and , con- sciously or unconsciously , either ... poet's poet ' , a label which has often reduced him to the marginalised status of an ' unread classic ' . His work ...
... poets of significance since the seventeenth century , who read Spenser and , con- sciously or unconsciously , either ... poet's poet ' , a label which has often reduced him to the marginalised status of an ' unread classic ' . His work ...
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... poet of sensuous beauty , gorgeous indolence and tempting luxury by critics and writers from the early seventeenth ... poetic ( and virtuous ) when writing about Ireland , where he lived almost continuously from 1580 until his death in ...
... poet of sensuous beauty , gorgeous indolence and tempting luxury by critics and writers from the early seventeenth ... poetic ( and virtuous ) when writing about Ireland , where he lived almost continuously from 1580 until his death in ...
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... poet merely , he might have found among its poets more wonderful imaginations than even those islands of Phaedria and Acrasia . He would have found among wandering story - tellers , not indeed his own power of rich , sustained ...
... poet merely , he might have found among its poets more wonderful imaginations than even those islands of Phaedria and Acrasia . He would have found among wandering story - tellers , not indeed his own power of rich , sustained ...
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... poets but that they lead the young to follow vice rather than virtue . More revealingly , perhaps , Irenius notes that poets are ' had in so high regard and estimation amongst them [ the Irish ] , that none dare displease them for feare ...
... poets but that they lead the young to follow vice rather than virtue . More revealingly , perhaps , Irenius notes that poets are ' had in so high regard and estimation amongst them [ the Irish ] , that none dare displease them for feare ...
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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