Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the
would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's
arse-kissing poet'. In this readable and informative account,
Spenser is depicted as the protege of a circle of London clergymen,
who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young
Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell's Catechism
and Dean of St. Paul's. Significantly revising the received
biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who
orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence
to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his
admiring disciple. Contextualising Spenser's life by comparisons
with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser
shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern
chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an
exile. -- .
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