Edmund Spenser - Protestant Poet

Klappentext This book offers a fresh reading of Spenser's poetry in the light of his Protestantism. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fresh reading of Spenser's poetry in the light of his Protestantism. Previous critics have devoted much space to the poet's debt to the literature of antiquity and the Renaissance! as well as to his knowledge of Neoplatonism! mythography and iconography; but less has been written about the imaginative consequences for his poetry of his Protestantism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. The Shepheardes Calender: 2. Maye', lulye' and 'September'; 3. Pastors and Poets; Part II. The Faerie Queene: 4. Nature and Grace reconsidered; 5. Book I: Sola Gratia; 6. Books II-VI: From Virtue to Virtue; 7. Britons and Elves; 8. Secret Wisdom?

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• Authors: Anthea Hume, Hume Anthea
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521091602
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09160-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets