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Supplement of the Faery Queene - By Ralph Knevet

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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Burlinson is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge Andrew Zurcher is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge Klappentext Ralph Knevet, a member of the Norfolk gentry and client of the Knevet and Paston families, completed his three-book continuation of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in 1635, on the eve of the English Civil War. Like Spenser's poem, Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. In his largely topical allegory, Knevet shadows recent English history, along with the major military and political events of the Dutch wars against Catholic Spain, and the first decades of the Thirty Years War, but his work also constellates a range of other generic, mythic and scholarly sources, from Pliny's Natural History and Ovid's Metamorphoses, to the works of Italian poets such as Lodovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, to the popular French masterpiece, Du Bartas' La Sepmaine, along with more recent works on astrology, gem-lore, herbal medicine and physiology. His encyclopaedic ambitions combine with his historical account of Protestant military and political struggle across Europe to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power.This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures and allusions. Zusammenfassung Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work! which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes! featuring knights! ladies! sorcerers! monsters! vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionKnevet's language: A supplementary glossary of frequently used terms[Knevet's] PrefaceA supplement of the Faery QueeneCommentary Bibliography Index...

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Authors Christopher Zurcher Burlinson
Assisted by Christopher Burlinson (Editor), Andrew Zurcher (Editor)
Publisher Manchester University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.2015
 
EAN 9780719082597
ISBN 978-0-7190-8259-7
No. of pages 352
Series The Manchester Spenser
The Manchester Spenser
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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