The new poet : novelty and tradition in Spenser's Complaints
"This study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, the Complaints, which was published in 1591 at the height of his career." "The strength of this work lies both in the originality of its project, an examination of the Complaints volume in its entirety, and in the precision and enterprise of the close reading that informs its argument." "This new study will be valuable to students of English Literature, Criticism and Poetry at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to all readers seeking a greater understanding of Spenser's poetry."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, ©1999
Liverpool English texts and studies, 31, [31]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 293 pages ; 23 cm
9780853238034, 9780853238133, 0853238030, 0853238138
41309512
Introduction 'Subject unto chaunge': Spenser's Complaints and the New Poetry
pt. 1. The Translations. Ch. 1. 'Clowdie teares': Poetic and Doctrinal Tensions in Virgils Gnat. Ch. 2. Forming the 'first garland of free Poesie' in France and England, 1558-91
pt. 2. The Major Complaints. Ch. 3. A 'goodlie bridge' between the Old and the New: the Transformation of Complaint in The Ruines of Time. Ch. 4. Poetry's 'liuing tongue' in The Teares of the Muses. Ch. 5. Cracking the Nut? Mother Hubberds Tale's Attack on Traditional Notions of Poetic Value. Ch. 6. 'Excellent device and wondrous slight': Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics. Ch. 7. 'And leave this lamentable plaint behinde': the New Poetry beyond the Complaints
App. Urania-Astraea and 'Divine Elisa' in The Teares of the Muses (II. 527-88)