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Spenser's Irish Work - Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation (Hardcover)
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Spenser's Irish Work - Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation (Hardcover)
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Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and
aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland, his
adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and
influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously
suspected. Thomas Herron explores Spenser's relation to
contemporary English poets and polemicists in Munster, such as Sir
Walter Raleigh, Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane, as well as
heretofore neglected Irish material in Elizabethan pageantry in the
1590s, such as the famously elaborate state performances at
Elvetham and Rycote. New light is shed here on the Irish
significance of both the earlier and later Books of The Fairie
Queene. Herron examines in depth Spenser's adaptation of the
paradigm of the laboring artist for empire found in Virgil's
Georgics, which Herron weaves explicitly with Spenser's experience
as an administrator, property owner and planter in Ireland. Taking
in history, religion, geography, classics and colonial studies, as
well as early modern literature and Irish studies, this book
constitutes a valuable addition to Spenser scholarship.
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