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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... relationship to military culture . Owen cites the joys of Spenser's poetry as a pointed contrast to the aggressive horror of war , thereby escaping from the terrors of the front line . The unnamed officer uses the same opposition to ...
... relationship to military culture . Owen cites the joys of Spenser's poetry as a pointed contrast to the aggressive horror of war , thereby escaping from the terrors of the front line . The unnamed officer uses the same opposition to ...
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... relation to his writing . Perhaps the keynote was sounded by Stephen Greenblatt in Renaissance Self - Fashioning , undoubtedly the most widely read critical work on the English Renaissance in the last twenty - five years , when he ...
... relation to his writing . Perhaps the keynote was sounded by Stephen Greenblatt in Renaissance Self - Fashioning , undoubtedly the most widely read critical work on the English Renaissance in the last twenty - five years , when he ...
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... relationship with Ireland , which has undoubtedly been the biggest growth area in Spenser studies in the last two decades.33 McCabe shows how deeply Irish culture - in Irish as well as English - influenced Spenser's writing , as well as ...
... relationship with Ireland , which has undoubtedly been the biggest growth area in Spenser studies in the last two decades.33 McCabe shows how deeply Irish culture - in Irish as well as English - influenced Spenser's writing , as well as ...
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... relationship between the two aspects of his life , as writing poetry was frequently a means of obtaining a job , or a method of advancement.34 Willy Maley examines the question of Spenser's language and concludes that just as there is a ...
... relationship between the two aspects of his life , as writing poetry was frequently a means of obtaining a job , or a method of advancement.34 Willy Maley examines the question of Spenser's language and concludes that just as there is a ...
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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