Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed DirectionsJ. B. Lethbridge Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006 - 385 pages 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 well-established scholars, the contributors move quietly away from theoretically dominated criticism, and emphasize the importance of historical criticism, both breaking new ground and recuperating neglected insights and approaches. The introduction describes and defends the current trend towards a renewed historical criticism in Spenser criticism. The papers contribute to our knowledge of Spenser's life as well as to our understanding of his poetry. J. B. Lethbridge lectures at the English seminar at Tubingen University. |
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Page 56
... Mutabilitie Cantos , while Moore , with reference to the Shepheardes Calender , writes that for the shepherd - poet " illumination brings neither earthly rest , nor reward , nor inner contentment - only clarity and a sense of purpose ...
... Mutabilitie Cantos , while Moore , with reference to the Shepheardes Calender , writes that for the shepherd - poet " illumination brings neither earthly rest , nor reward , nor inner contentment - only clarity and a sense of purpose ...
Page 267
... Mutabilitie Cantos the threat of censure takes the form of the nymphs ' urging Faunus's castration . Spenser was probably more worried that Cynthia's councillors might advise her to cut off his pension . Or censor his critical pen ...
... Mutabilitie Cantos the threat of censure takes the form of the nymphs ' urging Faunus's castration . Spenser was probably more worried that Cynthia's councillors might advise her to cut off his pension . Or censor his critical pen ...
Page 286
... Mutabilitie to The Faerie Queene remains tantalizingly open . My own view of it is that Mutabilitie is intended as a coda to the six Books of The Faerie Queene , and that it is cycli- cally structured by reference in particular to Book ...
... Mutabilitie to The Faerie Queene remains tantalizingly open . My own view of it is that Mutabilitie is intended as a coda to the six Books of The Faerie Queene , and that it is cycli- cally structured by reference in particular to Book ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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