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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453534203321

Autore

Brown Richard Danson

Titolo

The New Poet [[electronic resource] ] : Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-78138-779-6

1-84631-366-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 32 ; ; v.v.32

Disciplina

821.3

821/.3

Soggetti

Spenser, Edmund

Complaint poetry, English - History and criticism

English Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Subject unto chaunge': Spenser's Complaints and the New Poetry; Part One: The Translations; 1: 'Clowdie teares': Poetic and Doctrinal Tensions in Virgils Gnat; 2: Forming the 'first garland of free Poësie' in France and England, 1558-91; Part Two: The Major Complaints; 3: The Major Complaints; 4: Poetry's 'liuing tongue' in The Teares of the Muses; 5: Cracking the Nut? Mother Hubberds Tale's Attack on Traditional Notions of Poetic Value; 6: 'Excellent device and wondrous slight': Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics

7: The New Poetry beyond the ComplaintsAppendix: Urania-Astraea and 'Divine Elisa' in The Teares of the Muses (ll. 527-88); Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career. While there has been a good deal written in recent years on two of the poems in the collection, 'Mother Hubberd's



Tale' and 'Muiopotmos', Brown innovatively addresses the collection in its entirety. He urges us to see it as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: he fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but he examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature