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This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors' poetics and thought.
List of contents
Introduction: Spenser, Donne, and the trouble of periodization - Yulia Ryzhik
1 Caring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne - Richard Danson Brown
2 Comparing figures: figures of comparison and repetition in Spenser and Donne - Christopher D. Johnson
3 Refiguring Donne and Spenser: aspects of Ramist rhetoric - Niranjan Goswami
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Artes poeticae: Spenser, Donne, and the metaphysical sublime - Patrick Cheney
5 Spenser and Donne look to the Continent - Anne Lake Prescott
6 Ovidian Spenser, Ovidian Donne - Linda Gregerson
7 Cosmic matters: Spenser, Donne, and the philosophic poem - Ayesha Ramachandran
8 'Straunge characters': Spenser's Busirane and Donne's 'Valediction of my name in the window' - Elizabeth D. Harvey
9 Marriage and sacrifice: the poetics of the Epithalamia - Ramie Targoff
10 Spenser's and Donne's devotional poetics of scattering - David Marno
11 Eliot, Yeats, Joyce and the modernist reinvention of Spenser and Donne -Jane Grogan and Anne Fogarty
Index
About the author
Yulia Ryzhik is Assistant Professor of English (CLTA) at the University of Toronto, Scarborough
Summary
This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought. -- .
