Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
This is a collection of wide-ranging papers on Edmund Spenser, including criticism on the Shepheardes Calender, Spenser's rhymes, his impact on Louis MacNeice, the medieval organizations of the Faerie Queene, on the Mutabilite Cantos, Temperance in Book II, and Friendship in Book IV, Written by younger as well as by
Language: en
Pages: 647
Pages: 647
"The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
Language: en
Pages: 133
Pages: 133
Edmund Spenser (?1554-99) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calender (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-6) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. In his approachable and informative study, Colin Burrow clarifies the genres and conventions at
Language: en
Pages: 628
Pages: 628
Books about Time and the Calendar in Edmund Spenser's Poetical Works
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state