Research Catalog

Title

Edmund Spenser / Colin Burrow.

Author

Burrow, Colin.

Publication

Plymouth, U.K. : Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1996.

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Details

Description

x, 118 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Edmund Spenser (?1554-99) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calender (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-6) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. In his approachable and informative study, Colin Burrow clarifies the genres and conventions at work in Spenser's poem. He explores the poet's taste for archaism and allegory, and the nature of epic and of heroism in The Faerie Queene. He presents Spenser as a 'Renaissance' poet who is drawn at once to images of vital rebirth and of mortal frailty. In clear, jargon-free prose he examines Spenser's equivocal relationship with his Queen and with the Irish landscape in which he spent his mature years. Spenser emerges from this book a less orthodox and harmonious poet than he is often thought to be, but as a complex, thoughtful, and attractive writer."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Writers and their work

Uniform Title

Writers and their work.

Subject

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-116) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0746307500

OCLC

• 34820787
• SCSB-10967900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library