Edmund Spenser - Brossura

Burrow, Colin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0746307500 ISBN 13: 9780746307502

Casa editrice: Liverpool Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Edmund Spenser (?1554-99) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calender (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-6) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. In his approachable and informative study, Colin Burrow clarifies the genres and conventions at work in Spenser's poem. He explores the poet's taste for archaism and allegory, and the nature of epic and of heroism in The Faerie Queene. He presents Spenser as a 'Renaissance' poet who is drawn at once to images of vital rebirth and of mortal frailty. In clear, jargon-free prose he examines Spenser's equivocal relationship with his Queen and with the Irish landscape in which he spent his mature years. Spenser emerges from this book a less orthodox and harmonious poet than he is often thought to be, but as a complex, thoughtful, and attractive writer.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Colin Burrow is Fellow and University Lecturer in English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Liverpool Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0746307500
• ISBN 13: 9780746307502
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Redattore: Armstrong Isobel