Download or read book Spenser and the Numbers of Time written by Alastair Fowler and published by London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1964 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spenser's Faerie Queene is not often thought of as a closely articulated or well-proportioned work. Dr. Fowler explores the formal structure of the poem, and finds that, like a Renaissance palace, it has its principals of arrangement, though these may not longer be of an obvious nature. Adopting an iconographical approach, he shows that in his disposition of themes, narrative motifs, and emblems, Spenser has made use of definite schemes, such as the planetary week and the Pythagorean decad. Thus each book of the poem is governed by a planetary deity, whose attributes and exploits appear in its action, and whose influence helps 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person' by contributing some particular power or virtue. One of Dr. Fowler's most unexpected disclosures is that each character in a major episode, each river in a list of rivers, may correspond to a star in the appropriate constellation. Structural themes also govern the physical shape of the poem; so that numbers of stanzas and lines, as well as the positions of these units, constitute an organic pattern. Regarded in this way, the poem emerges as a cosmic model constructed in 'narrow verse' with masterful economy and subtlety. A concluding chapter deals with wider aspects of numerical composition, and discusses the principles of numerological analysis, which is becoming an indispensable instrument for the student of Renaissance Poetry." -Publisher.
Download or read book Spenser and the Numbers of Time written by Alastair Fowler and published by London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1964 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spenser's Faerie Queene is not often thought of as a closely articulated or well-proportioned work. Dr. Fowler explores the formal structure of the poem, and finds that, like a Renaissance palace, it has its principals of arrangement, though these may not longer be of an obvious nature. Adopting an iconographical approach, he shows that in his disposition of themes, narrative motifs, and emblems, Spenser has made use of definite schemes, such as the planetary week and the Pythagorean decad. Thus each book of the poem is governed by a planetary deity, whose attributes and exploits appear in its action, and whose influence helps 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person' by contributing some particular power or virtue. One of Dr. Fowler's most unexpected disclosures is that each character in a major episode, each river in a list of rivers, may correspond to a star in the appropriate constellation. Structural themes also govern the physical shape of the poem; so that numbers of stanzas and lines, as well as the positions of these units, constitute an organic pattern. Regarded in this way, the poem emerges as a cosmic model constructed in 'narrow verse' with masterful economy and subtlety. A concluding chapter deals with wider aspects of numerical composition, and discusses the principles of numerological analysis, which is becoming an indispensable instrument for the student of Renaissance Poetry." -Publisher.
Download or read book Spenser s Images of Life written by C. S. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.
Download or read book Allegory Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser written by Christopher Burlinson and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene. This book provides a radical reassessment of Spenserian allegory, in particular of The Faerie Queene, in the light of contemporary historical and theoretical interests in space and material culture. It explores the ambiguous and fluctuating attention to materiality, objects, and substance in the poetics of The Faerie Queene, and discusses the way that Spenser's creation of allegorical meaning makes use of this materiality, and transforms it.It suggests further that a critical engagement with materiality (which has been so important to the recent study of early modern drama) must come, in the case of allegorical narrative, through a study of narrative and physical space, and in this context it goes on to provide a reading of the spatial dimensions of the poem - quests and battles, forests, castles and hovels - and the spatial characteristics of Spenser's other writings. The book reaffirms theneed to place Spenser in his historical contexts - philosophical and scientific, military and architectural - in early modern England, Ireland and Europe, but also provides a critical reassessment of this literary historicism. Dr CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON is a Research Fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Download or read book Faerie queene book III written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Time s Endless Monument written by Allen Kent Hieatt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Time s Endless Monument written by A. Kent Hieatt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1920 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Time s Endless Monument written by A Kent 1921- Hieatt and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Spenser and Ovid written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spenser and Ovid, Syrithe Pugh gives the first sustained account of Ovid's presence in the Spenser canon, uncovering new evidence to reveal the thematic and formal debts many of Spenser's poems owe to Ovid, particularly when considered in the light of an informed understanding of all of Ovid's work. Pugh's reading presents a challenge to New Historicist assumptions, as she contests both the traditional insistence on Virgil as Spenser's prime classical model and the idea it has perpetuated of Spenser as Elizabeth I's imperial propagandist. In fact, Pugh locates Ovid's importance to Spenser precisely in his counter-Virgilian world view, with its high valuation of faithful love, concern for individual freedom, distrust of imperial rule, and the poet's claim to vatic authority in opposition to political power. Her study spans Spenser's career from the inaugural Shepheardes Calender to what was probably his last poem, The Mutabilitie Cantos, and embraces his work in the genres of pastoral, love poetry, and epic romance.
Download or read book Spenser and Virgil written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.This volume considers Spenser's pastoral poetry, the genre which announces the inception of a Virgilian career in The Shepheardes Calender, and to which he returns in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, throwing the 'Virgilian career' into reverse. His sustained dialogue with Virgil's Eclogues bewrays at once a profound debt to Virgil and a deep-seated unease with his values and priorities, not least his subordination of pastoral to epic.Drawing on the commentary tradition and engaging with current critical debates, this study of Spenser's interpretation, imitation and revision of Virgil casts new light on both poets-and on the genre of pastoral itself.
Download or read book Interpretation and Theology in Spenser written by Darryl J. Gless and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the ways in which new interpretations of theological doctrine inform Spenser's poetry.
Download or read book Short Time s Endless Monument The Symbolism of the Numbers in Edmund Spenser s Epithalamion By A Kent Hieatt written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edmund Spencer written by R. M. Cummings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Edmund Spenser's essays. It presents the criticisms of John Dryden, which are determined by his own preoccupations than by his reading of other critics, and contains three larger sections (covering the periods 1579-1600, 1600-1660, 1660-1715) into which all this material falls.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Spenser written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Spenser written by J. B. Lethbridge and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never before been treated systematically, and the linguistic borrowings lead to broader-scale borrowings and influences which are treated here. An additional feature of the book is that for the first time a large bibliography of previous work is offered which will be of the greatest help to those who follow up the opportunities offered by this collection. Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites presents new approaches, heralding a resurgence of interest in the relations between two of the greatest Renaissance English poets to a wider scholarly group and in a more systematic manner than before. This will be of interest to Students and academics interested in Renaissance literature.
Download or read book Time and the Calendar in Edmund Spenser s Poetical Works written by Émilien Mohsen and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2005 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
