Visionary Spenser and the Poetics of Early Modern Platonism

This book defines Platonism's roles in early modern theories of literature, and then reappraises the major Platonizing poet Edmund Spenser.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART ONE: PLATONIC POETICS


• 1: Platonism in Early Modern Poetics and Spenser's Poesis


• PART TWO: THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER


• 2: Spenser's Phaedran Calender


• 3: The Calender's Visions and Poetics of Beauty


• PART THREE: THE 1590 AND 1596 FAERIE QUEENE


• 4: The (H)eroic Idealism of Spenser's Faery


• 5: Gloriana's 'True Glorious Type'

About the author

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University. A former Canada Research Fellow and winner of the MacCaffrey Award, he is the author of two monographs, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature, and Spenser's Poetics of Prophecy. He has also edited Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650, and co-edited The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe (with George Rousseau) and The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (with George Klawitter). His essays and chapters have appeared in numerous serials and collections including Renaissance Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, Milton Studies, Spenser Studies, and The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys.

Summary

This book defines Platonism's roles in early modern theories of literature, and then reappraises the major Platonizing poet Edmund Spenser.

Additional text

All in all, Visionary Spenser is a learned book on a fascinating topic...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Borris, Kenneth (Professor Borris, Borris Kenneth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780198807070
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880707-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets