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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... suggest that Spenser , a poet whose work was written at the start of the first English / British empire , assumed a special importance for readers fighting in the war that would effectively end the British Empire for good . As this ...
... suggest that Spenser , a poet whose work was written at the start of the first English / British empire , assumed a special importance for readers fighting in the war that would effectively end the British Empire for good . As this ...
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... suggests , especially given its setting in the wilds of Ireland , that the wider territories of the British Isles will threaten the stability that an insular England has usually assumed . Moreover , Mutabil- itie's claims , like those ...
... suggests , especially given its setting in the wilds of Ireland , that the wider territories of the British Isles will threaten the stability that an insular England has usually assumed . Moreover , Mutabil- itie's claims , like those ...
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... and a civil servant and landowner , so there is between the formal and political concerns of his writing . Maley provides further evidence to complement McCabe's claims , suggesting that 9 Introduction : the relevance of Edmund Spenser.
... and a civil servant and landowner , so there is between the formal and political concerns of his writing . Maley provides further evidence to complement McCabe's claims , suggesting that 9 Introduction : the relevance of Edmund Spenser.
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Andrew Hadfield. provides further evidence to complement McCabe's claims , suggesting that Spenser needs to be considered as much in the context of the British Isles and its regions as within the confines of the London court . John King ...
Andrew Hadfield. provides further evidence to complement McCabe's claims , suggesting that Spenser needs to be considered as much in the context of the British Isles and its regions as within the confines of the London court . John King ...
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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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