Edmund Spenser : new and renewed directions
This book is a collection of wide-ranging papers on Edmund Spenser, including criticism on the Shepheardes Calender, Spenser's rhymes, his impact on Louis MacNeice, the medieval organizations of the Faerie Queene, on the Mutabilite Cantos, Temperance in Book II, and Friendship in Book IV. - Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2006
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
385 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780838640661, 0838640664
67240647
Introduction : Recuperating the return to history / J.B. Lethbridge
Pastoral motivation in The shepheardes calender / John Moore
Plucking the Perrot : Muiopotmos and Irish politics / Thomas Herron
"Well grounded, finely framed, and strongly trussed up together" : the "Medieval" structure of The faerie queene / Andrew King
Acrasia and bondage : Guyon's perversion of the Ovidian erotic in Book II of The faerie queene / Syrithe Pugh
Raleigh, Spenser, and Elizabeth : acts of friendship in The faerie queen, Book IV / Graham Atkin
Britomart's gone abroad to Brute-land, Colin Clout's come courting from the salvage Ire-land : exile and the Kingdom in some of Spenser's fictions for "crossing over" / James Nohrnberg
Mutabilitie's debateable land : Spenser's Ireland and the frontiers of faerie / E.A.F. Porges Watson
Spenser's last days ; Ireland, career, mutability, allegory / J.B. Lethbridge
Rhyming against the grain : a new look at the Spenserian stanza / Catherine Addison
MacNeice in fairy land / Richard Danson Brown
Papers originated at a conference to celebrate Spenser's life, held in County Cork