Spenser And The Poetics Of Pastoral

Author : David R. Shore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Clout, Colin (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780773505773

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Spenser and the Poetics of Pastoral by David R. Shore Pdf

The Shepheardes Calender (1579) signalled Spenser's desire to assume the role of an English Virgil and at the same time his readiness to leave behind the pastoral world of his apprenticeship and his early persona, Colin Clout. Yet Spenser was twice to return to the pastoral world of Colin Clout, first in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (written 1591, published 1595), and then again in the sixth and last complete book of The Faerie Queene. In Spenser and the Poetics of Pastoral, David Shore considers the structure of the moral eclogues of the Calender as it defines the pastoral vision that informs and unifies the entire poem. He then examines the themes of poetic idealism and courtly corruption in Colin Clout and sees in their confrontation Spenser's questioning of the public foundations of the poet's heroic endeavour. Finally, he considers Calidore's pastoral retreat in The Faerie Queene and finds in it support for the argument that Spenser's greatest poem is essentially complete. Pastoral is a highly self-conscious genre, especially in Spenser's explorations of the imaginative world of Colin Clout. By bringing together Spenser's three versions of that world, Spenser and the Poetics of Pastoral contributes to a richer appreciation of the pastoral works themselves and to a better understanding of the shape of Spenser's literary career as a whole.

Author : John D. Bernard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521362528

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Ceremonies of Innocence by John D. Bernard Pdf

A comprehensive study of pastoralism in Edmund Spenser's poetry.

Author : Syrithe Pugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526119889

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Spenser and Virgil by Syrithe Pugh Pdf

An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets.

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112100592382

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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser: Complaints 1590-91. Essay on English pastoral poetry by Edmund Spenser Pdf

Author : Patrick Cullen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674431219

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Spenser, Marvell, and Renaissance Pastoral by Patrick Cullen Pdf

Author : Judith Owens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780773569973

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Enabling Engagements by Judith Owens Pdf

Enabling Engagements contributes to current critical debates regarding early modern subjectivity and early modern cultural capital. In stressing the boldness of Edmund Spenser's poetics of patronage, Judith Owens shows that Elizabethans could and did exercise agency within a wide range of institutions. By consistently challenging assumptions of courtly hegemony in early modern society, Owens suggests a new appraisal of the processes of cultural commodification. Enabling Engagements challenges conventional assessments of Spenser as court-centred and of patronal relations in the early modern period as asymmetrical and prescriptive. Owens demonstrates that Spenser exercised a vigorous sense of agency within the close quarters of patronage and courtly culture, fashioning his laureate's role and envisioning nationhood in resistance to the centre. She shows that his independence from court-centred values and tropes informed his poetics from the start of his publishing career, not just as a result of increasing disillusionment with the court. Owens develops detailed readings of Spenser's poetry and his paratextual material in The Shepheardes Calender, the 1590 Faerie Queene, and Complaints, providing contexts that are both broader and more varied than those usually accorded Spenser's poetry. She extends the horizons of The Faerie Queene in particular to include not only court and sovereign but also London, the material conditions of early modern publishing, and Ireland. Bringing together concerns usually approached individually, she shows us a Spenser who is neither the careerist of much recent criticism nor the Elizabethan propagandist of long-standing custom.

Author : David Hill Radcliffe
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 157113073X

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Edmund Spenser, a Reception History by David Hill Radcliffe Pdf

This book considers four centuries of Spenser criticism, locating critics in ongoing discussions of Spenser's poetry and the cultural contexts of their time.

Author : Nancy Jo Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004772425

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Spenser's Pastorals by Nancy Jo Hoffman Pdf

Author : Karcher, Stephen L. (Stephen Lawrence)
Publisher : National Library of Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dreams in literature
ISBN : 0315283033

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The Poem, the Dream and the Pastoral Landscape [microform] : a Prologue to Spenser's Red Crosse Knighte by Karcher, Stephen L. (Stephen Lawrence) Pdf

Author : Theocritus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Pastoral poetry, Greek
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055076913

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The Greek Pastoral Poets by Theocritus Pdf

Author : Rebeca Helfer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802090676

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Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection by Rebeca Helfer Pdf

Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.

Author : Ordelle G. Hill
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0945636423

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The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd by Ordelle G. Hill Pdf

By the early sixteenth century, the agrarian landscape changed to more pastoral land, more enclosures, and a decrease in (or a rearrangement of) manorial lands. Increased population and an abundance of labor created economic tensions that caused moralizers to cry out for reform, but there is no evidence pastoral lands decreased even by the end of the century. In literature, the plowman tradition continued to exist in such forms as the remarkable sermon by Bishop Latimer, but more often than not it was viewed nostalgically as part of the past, and used to address the problems brought about by the pastoral economy of the sixteenth century. The plowman can be identified even as late as Spenser's Faerie Queene where he assumes the moral associations of the fourteenth-century type, and in Sidney where the plowman becomes the unsympathetic buffoon.

Author : John N. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : 0691068003

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Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition by John N. King Pdf

In this extended treatment of Edmund Spenser's place in the Reformation literary tradition, John King presents the poet as a rival of classical and Italianate literary predecessors by placing his work within a distinctively English context. Rather than follow those contemporaries who rejected the unpretentious devices of mid-Tudor satire and allegory, Spenser, it is shown, infuses them with sophisticated standards of the Continental Renaissance. King's study begins with the consideration of Spenser's debut as an innovator who, paradoxically, emulates "Chaucerian" precedent for pastoral satire. By revising critical opinions that identify an iconoclastic movement in The Faerie Queene, he demonstrates the constructive aspect of the Reformation attack against idolatry that underlies the pervasive inversion and mutation of iconic tableaux in the poem. This study culminates in a detailed reading of Book I of The Faerie Queene that addresses Spenser's reformation, within the all-inclusive frame of allegorical romantic epic, of deficient and worldly forms of romance, pastoral, and tragedy into a set of purged and elevated Christian counterparts.

Author : Peter Charles Bayley
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0091093902

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Edmund Spenser: Prince of Poets by Peter Charles Bayley Pdf

"All Spenser's work, including the minor poems and the prose View of Ireland, is examined. There are chapters on The Shepheardes Calender, the Complaints poems, the great love and religious poetry of 1595-6 and the Faerie Queene. The author illustrates the range of Spenser's imaginative and poetic skills in pastoral, elegy, lyric, satire, sonnet, ode, epithalamium, religious ode and epic, and shows why he was the most popular of Elizabethan poets." -Publisher.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521645700

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The Cambridge Companion to Spenser by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

In this accessible introduction to Spenser's poetry and prose, a set of fourteen essays provide extensive commentary on his life and the historical and religious contexts in which he wrote