Early Spenser, 1554-80 - ''Minde on Honour Fixed''

Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A

List of contents

Introduction
1 Lineage and the 'Nowell Account Book'
2 Spenser's education and Merchant Taylors' School
3 Pembroke College (1569-74)
4 'Southerne shepheardes boye' (1574-79)
5 Gabriel Harvey and Immerito (1569-78)
6 'Minde on honour fixed': Spenser, Sidney, and the early modern chivalric code
7 Aprill and November
8 Puzzling identities: From E.K. to Roffy's 'boye' to Rosalind
9 Familiar Letters (1580)
10 Ireland and the preferment of Edmund Spenser (1580)
Conclusion

About the author

Jean R. Brink is a Research Scholar at Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, and the founding director of the Az Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Summary

Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .

Product details

• Authors: Jean Brink, Jean R Brink, Jean R. Brink, Brink Jean R. Jean R.
• Assisted by: Joshua Samuel Reid (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781526142580
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4258-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies