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Edmund Spenser (Paperback)
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Edmund Spenser (Paperback)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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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 Spenser's
poem. He explores the poet's 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 Spenser's 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.
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