The New Poet [[electronic resource] ] : Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints
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| Autore: |
Brown Richard Danson
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| Titolo: |
The New Poet [[electronic resource] ] : Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821.3 |
| 821/.3 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Spenser, Edmund |
| Complaint poetry, English - History and criticism | |
| English Literature | |
| English | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The New Poet |
| ISBN: | 1-78138-779-6 |
| 1-84631-366-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453534203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 32