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 103
... true Sea , and true Bull ye would weene " ; this state of affairs only seems true to the Catholic believers of Arachne's art , not to those Protestant readers wary of Philip's claims . For the Protestants , Minerva has a greater claim ...
... true Sea , and true Bull ye would weene " ; this state of affairs only seems true to the Catholic believers of Arachne's art , not to those Protestant readers wary of Philip's claims . For the Protestants , Minerva has a greater claim ...
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... true love . This is the point , too , of the corresponding episodes in Ar- iosto and Tasso , whose heroes reject Alcina and Armida not because erotic love must be subordinated to duty to the state , but as obstacles to the fulfillment of ...
... true love . This is the point , too , of the corresponding episodes in Ar- iosto and Tasso , whose heroes reject Alcina and Armida not because erotic love must be subordinated to duty to the state , but as obstacles to the fulfillment of ...
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... true love . It is conspicuously lacking in all the characteristic qualities of true love celebrated in couples like Redcrosse and Una - fidelity , mutual care , reverence , virtue . It excludes these possibilities as completely , in ...
... true love . It is conspicuously lacking in all the characteristic qualities of true love celebrated in couples like Redcrosse and Una - fidelity , mutual care , reverence , virtue . It excludes these possibilities as completely , in ...
Contents
Contributors 791 | 11 |
Pastoral Motivation in The Shepheardes Calender | 58 |
Muiopotmos and Irish Politics | 80 |
Copyright | |
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