Edmund Spencer: The Critical HeritageR. M. Cummings Routledge, 14 okt 2020 - 376 pagina's This book examines Edmund Spenser's essays. It presents the criticisms of John Dryden, which are determined by his own preoccupations than by his reading of other critics, and contains three larger sections (covering the periods 1579-1600, 1600-1660, 1660-1715) into which all this material falls. |
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... seem rather small.13 Such matters are difficult to estimate. The early demand for Spenser does not compare with that for, say, Ariosto (of whose Orlando Furioso there were more than a hundred editions between 1516 and the end of the ...
... seem rather small.13 Such matters are difficult to estimate. The early demand for Spenser does not compare with that for, say, Ariosto (of whose Orlando Furioso there were more than a hundred editions between 1516 and the end of the ...
Pagina 6
... seem that what immediately struck a lot of Elizabethans was that they had a new Ariosto, a poet to 'treat of worthies and of Ladies loue'. But this does not mean that they were ignorant of Spenser's ambitions as a moral or a learned ...
... seem that what immediately struck a lot of Elizabethans was that they had a new Ariosto, a poet to 'treat of worthies and of Ladies loue'. But this does not mean that they were ignorant of Spenser's ambitions as a moral or a learned ...
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... , even among those best placed to understand the poem , little beyond that is said . The commendatory verses which accompany the first edition of the poem certainly get no further. It seems as if it may have INTRODUCTION 7.
... , even among those best placed to understand the poem , little beyond that is said . The commendatory verses which accompany the first edition of the poem certainly get no further. It seems as if it may have INTRODUCTION 7.
Pagina 8
The Critical Heritage R. M. Cummings. get no further. It seems as if it may have overwhelmed and confused its earliest readers, so that the only accounts of any substance are Spenser's own in the Letter to Ralegh (No. 2c) and that ...
The Critical Heritage R. M. Cummings. get no further. It seems as if it may have overwhelmed and confused its earliest readers, so that the only accounts of any substance are Spenser's own in the Letter to Ralegh (No. 2c) and that ...
Pagina 17
... seems to matter what the design is like, it is the colouring that strikes the eye. There begins the concentrated emphasis on the specifically pictorial which remains even in this century. Spenser had always, as is clear from the ...
... seems to matter what the design is like, it is the colouring that strikes the eye. There begins the concentrated emphasis on the specifically pictorial which remains even in this century. Spenser had always, as is clear from the ...
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THE PERIOD 15791600 | 28 |
OBITUARY VERSE | 94 |
THE PERIOD 16001660 | 112 |
THE PERIOD 16601715 | 200 |
LANGUAGE AND STYLE | 279 |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES | 325 |
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