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Edmund Spenser

Colin Burrow

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  • 128 sidor
  • 1996
Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. Readers have always been immediately attracted by the fluid grace of is language, and by the magical world of dwarfs, hermits, knights and dragons evoked in The Faerie Queene, but have often been bewildered and overawed by the bulk and complexity of his writing. In this approachable and informative book, Colin Burrow clarifies the genres and conventions of work in Spensers poem. He explores the poets taste for archaism and allegory, and the native of epic and of heroism in The Faerie Queene. He presents Spenser as a Renaissance poet, who is drawn at once to images of vital rebirth and to images of mortal frailty. In clear, jargon-free prose he explores Spensers equivocal relationship with his Queen and with the Irish landscape in which he spent his mature years. Spenser emerges from this book a less orthodox and harmonious poet that he is often thought to be, but as a complex, thoughtful and attractive writer.
  • Författare: Colin Burrow
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780746307502
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 128
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1996-06-01
  • Förlag: Liverpool University Press