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Edmund Spenser: Protestant Poet

By Hume , Anthea

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780521258074, 9780521091602, 0521258073, 9780511553127, 0511553129
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4957282 bytes)
Pages
210\209
Time added
2020-11-29 04:13:31

Description

This book offers a fresh reading of Spenser's poetry in the light of his Protestantism. Previous critics have devoted much space to the poet's debt to the literature of antiquity and the Renaissance, as well as to his knowledge of Neoplatonism, mythograph, and iconography; but less has been written about the imaginative consequences for his poetry of his Protestantism, largely conditioned by the Elizabethan religious milieu. Dr Hume seeks to illuminate Spenser's major poems, The Shepheardes Calender and The Faerie Queene, by placing them in a relevant context of Elizabethan Protestant thought and writings. Her detailed analysis shows how words, images and episodes in both poems come into focus when the reader takes account of sermons, biblical commentaries, devotional treatises and controversial works of the Elizabethan decades.

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