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 126
... given in the " Letter " must be modified or combined with other evidence , but it must not be abandoned altogether . We need to consider in rela- tively pure form what is the structural tradition that lies behind that aspect of The ...
... given in the " Letter " must be modified or combined with other evidence , but it must not be abandoned altogether . We need to consider in rela- tively pure form what is the structural tradition that lies behind that aspect of The ...
Page 312
... given a good account of the differences implied . 35 This leaves the question of the stanza form , the allegory and the canto divi- sions . The allegory by itself is no argument : there is allegory aplenty in the minor poems . And there ...
... given a good account of the differences implied . 35 This leaves the question of the stanza form , the allegory and the canto divi- sions . The allegory by itself is no argument : there is allegory aplenty in the minor poems . And there ...
Page 332
... given up on it . Spenser had not given up , it is probable that more had been written , and , I have argued , lost , a factor contributing to the tone of the Cantos , and particularly to the last pair of stanzas ; The Faerie Queene is ...
... given up on it . Spenser had not given up , it is probable that more had been written , and , I have argued , lost , a factor contributing to the tone of the Cantos , and particularly to the last pair of stanzas ; The Faerie Queene is ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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