Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry AnnualAnne Lake Prescott, Thomas P. Roche, William A. Oram This volume looks at: the life of Virgil and the aspiration of the New Poet; the secret faith of Spenser's Saracens; despair and the proportion of the self; despair and the composition of the Self; succession anxieties and the wandering suitor in Spenser's Faerie Queene; and more. |
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... romance in the early modern period , and shows the importance of romance for thinking about Christian identity after the Reformation . I also hope to open up a historical sense of Spenser's aesthetic choices , to show how his poem , by ...
... romance in the early modern period , and shows the importance of romance for thinking about Christian identity after the Reformation . I also hope to open up a historical sense of Spenser's aesthetic choices , to show how his poem , by ...
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... romance as not only a frivolous but also a Catholic literary form , the favorite form of a time " whan Papistrie , as a standyng poole , couered and ouerflowed all England . " 52 Ascham thought romance licentious , but for Bale , the ...
... romance as not only a frivolous but also a Catholic literary form , the favorite form of a time " whan Papistrie , as a standyng poole , couered and ouerflowed all England . " 52 Ascham thought romance licentious , but for Bale , the ...
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... romance suggests the secret complicities that frustrate heroic action , but while romance conventionally presses toward clari- fication , toward a realignment of self and other , Spenser defers that promise . No earthly authority ...
... romance suggests the secret complicities that frustrate heroic action , but while romance conventionally presses toward clari- fication , toward a realignment of self and other , Spenser defers that promise . No earthly authority ...
Contents
The Life of Virgil and the Aspiration of the New Poet | 1 |
The Secret Faith of Spensers Saracens | 37 |
Despair and the Proportion of the Self | 75 |
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