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Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039330209
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835844
First published in 1983, Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth presents The Faerie Queene as a central document in the cult of Elizabeth. It shows how Spenser combines the resources of medieval iconography and Renaissance rhetoric in celebrating the Queen as the predestined ruler of an elect nation. In its introductory discussion of Renaissance poetics, the book emphasises the contemporary belief in the moral function of praise. Particular attention is given to the popular identification of Elizabeth with the Virgin Mary. If Elizabeth’s gender created problems for a poet writing in the heroic mode, at the same time it made available to him a form of praise that no secular poet had been able to use before. While the book contains material of interest to the Renaissance specialist, its lucid style and the valuable background material it provides will appeal to undergraduates reading Spenser for the first time.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 1521 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781603840385
The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141920405
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.
Author : David Norbrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199247188
This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
Author : Donald Stump
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 3030271145
This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the loves and wars of an Arthurian realm that mirrors Elizabethan England, Spenser explores the crises that shaped Elizabeth’s reign: her break with the pope to create a reformed English Church, her standoff with Mary, Queen of Scots, offensives against Irish rebels and Spanish troops, confrontations with assassins and foreign invaders, and the apocalyptic expectations of the English people in a time of national transformation. Brilliantly reconciling moral and historicist readings, this volume offers a major new interpretation of The Faerie Queene.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041986590
"The First Book of the Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser is an epic poem that stands as a cornerstone in English Renaissance literature. This allegorical masterpiece follows the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight and his quest to free Una from the clutches of the dragon. Spenser employs rich, archaic language and intricate verse forms, creating a poetic tapestry that intertwines themes of chivalry, virtue, and the complex interplay between the allegorical and the historical. As the knight encounters various challenges and adversaries, each episode serves as an allegory for moral and spiritual trials. The poem also acts as a celebration of Queen Elizabeth I, drawing parallels between her reign and the legendary Gloriana, the Faerie Queene. In this first book, Spenser lays the foundation for the overarching narrative, presenting a vivid and enchanting world filled with knights, damsels, and mythical creatures. The Faerie Queene serves as a poetic exploration of the virtues and vices that shape human existence, making it a timeless work that continues to captivate readers with its intricate allegory and poetic brilliance. Immerse yourself in the enchanting realm of Spenser's Faerie Queene, where each stanza unfolds a tale of valor and virtue in the quest for the idealized chivalric life.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504080835
The first book in this Elizabethan epic poem follows the adventures of the chivalrous Redcrosse Knight and his virtuous love Lady Una. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene ushered in a new sensibility in English literature as the reunited country entered the seventeenth century. In his distinctive verse form—which came to be known as the Spenserian stanza—Spenser inspired his countrymen with tales of noble adventure, romance, and chivalry. This first volume of The Faerie Queene explores the virtue of holiness as exemplified by its hero. In a series of allegorical fantasy tales, the Redcrosse Knight travels with his Lady Una as he fights the monster Errour, is tricked by a wizard into believing Una unchaste, and taken captive by a giant before Una rescues him from Despair. Once recovered, the Redcrosse Knight returns to battle to defend Una and her family from a dragon.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781603840422
Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustice, aided by his sidekick Talus and the timely intervention of his betrothed, the woman warrior Britomart. As allegory, Book Five figures forth ideal concepts of justice and explores how justice may be applied in a real world complicated by social inequality, female rule, political guile, and excessive violence. At the same time, as historical allegory, it retells a number of the most important events of early modern England, in particular the controversies surrounding the colonization of Ireland. An integral part of the larger poem, Book Five also stands on its own as one of the most challenging meditations on justice in English literature.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781603840415
These paired Arthurian legends suggest that erotic desire and the desire for companionship undergird national politics. The maiden Britomart, Queen Elizabeth's fictional ancestor, dons armor to search for a man whom she has seen in a crystal ball. While on this quest, she seeks to understand how one can be chaste while pursuing a sexual goal, in love with a man while passionately attached to a woman, a warrior princess yet a wife. As Spenser's most sensitively developed character, Britomart is capable of heroic deeds but also of teenage self-pity. Her experience is anatomized in the stories of other characters, where versions of love and friendship include physical gratification, torture, mutual aid, competition, spiritual ecstasy, self-sacrifice, genial teasing, jealousy, abduction, wise government, sedition, and the valiant defense of a pig shed.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722649666
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language and the origin of a verse form that came to be known as Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues, though it is primarily an allegorical work, and can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors" he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devises," and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline".The Faerie Queene found such favor with Elizabeth I that Spenser was granted a pension for life amounting to £50 a year, though there is no further evidence that Elizabeth read any of the poem. This royal patronage helped the poem to such a level of success that it became Spenser's defining work.
Author : Kenneth Borris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198807070
This book defines Platonism's roles in early modern theories of literature, and then reappraises the major Platonizing poet Edmund Spenser
Author : Donald Stump
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030271152
This book reveals the queen behind Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Placing Spenser’s epic poem in the context of the tumultuous sixteenth century, Donald Stump offers a groundbreaking reading of the poem as an allegory of Elizabeth I’s life. By narrating the loves and wars of an Arthurian realm that mirrors Elizabethan England, Spenser explores the crises that shaped Elizabeth’s reign: her break with the pope to create a reformed English Church, her standoff with Mary, Queen of Scots, offensives against Irish rebels and Spanish troops, confrontations with assassins and foreign invaders, and the apocalyptic expectations of the English people in a time of national transformation. Brilliantly reconciling moral and historicist readings, this volume offers a major new interpretation of The Faerie Queene.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985225477
More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser. He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good.Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and the most beautiful of all is the one called The Faerie Queen. He loved so dearly all things that are beautiful and all things that are good, that his eyes could see Fairyland more clearly than the eyes of other men ever could.There are many, many stories in The Faerie Queen, and out of them all I have told you only eight. Some day you will read the others for yourself.
Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535563419
Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for writing the long epic poem The Faerie Queene. The poem follows the lives of several knights and is unique for its fantastic use of allegory. The poem was also written as a tribute to the Tudor dynasty and Queen Elizabeth I.
