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 316
... poetry is more compact , denser , less artificial perhaps than in the other books ; that the poetry , despite the comic interlude , and even in the joyous descriptions of Arlo and Nature , is fundamentally more serious in intent than ...
... poetry is more compact , denser , less artificial perhaps than in the other books ; that the poetry , despite the comic interlude , and even in the joyous descriptions of Arlo and Nature , is fundamentally more serious in intent than ...
Page 329
... poetry as taking , or at least as able to take , priority , as being a perhaps overriding ambition , without the need for us to read in the " gentlemanly " fashion rightly deplored by Maley and others or to be sentimental about the poetry ...
... poetry as taking , or at least as able to take , priority , as being a perhaps overriding ambition , without the need for us to read in the " gentlemanly " fashion rightly deplored by Maley and others or to be sentimental about the poetry ...
Page 359
... poetry from his politics ( so they could go on enjoying the poetry with- out being troubled by the unpleasantness of the politics ) , contemporary critics risk reading the politics in place of the poetry so that they can portray Spenser ...
... poetry from his politics ( so they could go on enjoying the poetry with- out being troubled by the unpleasantness of the politics ) , contemporary critics risk reading the politics in place of the poetry so that they can portray Spenser ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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