LEADER 04582nam 22006132 450 001 9910782250703321 005 20220429205705.0 010 $a1-78138-779-6 010 $a1-84631-366-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541196 035 $a(EBL)380634 035 $a(OCoLC)476209397 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210659 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198239 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210659 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292061 035 $a(PQKB)10574521 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11535909 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10812472 035 $a(PQKB)20895478 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846313660 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127386 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781387795 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380634 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541196 100 $a20170307d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe new poet $enovelty and tradition in Spenser's Complaints /$fRichard Danson Brown$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 293 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool English texts and studies 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-803-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle 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 Poe?sie' 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 327 $a7: The New Poetry beyond the ComplaintsAppendix: Urania-Astraea and 'Divine Elisa' in The Teares of the Muses (ll. 527-88); Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career. While there has been a good deal written in recent years on two of the poems in the collection, 'Mother Hubberd's Tale' and 'Muiopotmos', Brown innovatively addresses the collection in its entirety. He urges us to see it as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: he fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but he examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature of poetry and the auspices for writing in a modern world, distancing itself from the traditions of the immediate past. The strength of this work lies both in the originality of its project and in the precision and enterprise of the close reading that informs its argument. Interest in the concern of Spenser's poetry with the nature of poetry is in the current critical mainstream, but here the attentiveness is both unusually focused and unusually sustained. Brown garners more than would be expected from the translations in the Complaints, while at the same time including striking and individual chapters on the better known 'Mother Hubberd's Tale' and 'Muiopotmos'; he advances understanding of these extremely subtle texts and fully justifies his wider approach to the collection as a whole. Arguing that Spenser's relationship to literary tradition is more complex than is often thought, Brown suggests that Spenser was a self-conscious innovator whose gradual move away from traditional poetics is exhibited by the different texts in the Complaints. He further suggests that the Complaints are a 'poetics in practice', which progress from traditional ideas of poetry to a new poetry that emerges through Spenser's transformation of traditional complaint. 410 0$aLiverpool English texts and studies. 606 $aComplaint poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aComplaint poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.3 700 $aBrown$b Richard Danson$01484519 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782250703321 996 $aThe new poet$93703198 997 $aUNINA