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 108
... reader hope , a hope recognized in the poet - planter's ongoing vatic power of figuration . The text forces the reader to provide the police action of memory , guided by Spenser's inspiration , which rounds out the pattern of conquest ...
... reader hope , a hope recognized in the poet - planter's ongoing vatic power of figuration . The text forces the reader to provide the police action of memory , guided by Spenser's inspiration , which rounds out the pattern of conquest ...
Page 149
... reader entry to the text at specific points . Most of the annotations are in Book II , and for that section they occur on virtually every page . Some examples taken from II.ii are : " Gyons speache to ye babe " ; " the palmers reason ...
... reader entry to the text at specific points . Most of the annotations are in Book II , and for that section they occur on virtually every page . Some examples taken from II.ii are : " Gyons speache to ye babe " ; " the palmers reason ...
Page 153
... reader : " Where is that happy land of Faery ? " Is it not merely " th ' aboundance of an idle braine ... and painted forgery ? " ( 1.7 , 4 ) . The reply , re- minding the bad reader " That of the world least part to vs is red , " ( 2.2 ) ...
... reader : " Where is that happy land of Faery ? " Is it not merely " th ' aboundance of an idle braine ... and painted forgery ? " ( 1.7 , 4 ) . The reply , re- minding the bad reader " That of the world least part to vs is red , " ( 2.2 ) ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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