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 . The contribu- tions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and under- stand Spenser's ... poetry , his sexual politics and use of language . Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native ...
... poet . The contribu- tions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and under- stand Spenser's ... poetry , his sexual politics and use of language . Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native ...
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... Poetry , Donne to Marvell edited by Thomas N. Corns The Cambridge Companion to English Literature , 1500-1600 edited ... Poetry edited by John Sitter The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth - Century Novel edited by John Richetti The ...
... Poetry , Donne to Marvell edited by Thomas N. Corns The Cambridge Companion to English Literature , 1500-1600 edited ... Poetry edited by John Sitter The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth - Century Novel edited by John Richetti The ...
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... Poetry ( published 1595 ) in MS circulation . The Shepheardes Calender , second edition . Appointed to civil service jobs in Dublin and leases land in Wexford . Munster Rebellion at its height . Leases more land in Kildare and is ...
... Poetry ( published 1595 ) in MS circulation . The Shepheardes Calender , second edition . Appointed to civil service jobs in Dublin and leases land in Wexford . Munster Rebellion at its height . Leases more land in Kildare and is ...
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... poet , was recovering from shell shock at the 13th Casualty Clearing Station in Amiens , France , he wrote to his mother ... poetry than that'.3 The two stories are instructive in a number of ways . First , they both point to the ...
... poet , was recovering from shell shock at the 13th Casualty Clearing Station in Amiens , France , he wrote to his mother ... poetry than that'.3 The two stories are instructive in a number of ways . First , they both point to 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 ...
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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