The Shepheardes Calender

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041005
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shepheardes Calender by : Lynn Staley Johnson

Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Lynn Staley Johnson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem in its literary, social, political , and cultural context, contributing to our understanding of the relationship between Spenser and his times. She pays particular attention to the emergence of the myth of Elizabeth and of England during the first half of Elizabeth's reign and the ways in which the young Spenser manipulated the concerns and issues of the time, transforming popular culture into literary expression. By its active engagement with both the present and the past, the Calender suggests Spenser's conception of poetry as informed dialogue designed for social work, offering a reinterpretation of the relationship between the poet and his community. Choosing not to be circumscribed by the voices of his significant historical and literary past, the Calender proclaims the poet, not as transmitter or mediator, but as an active and shaping force, capable of remaking the present by offering his age a picture of a new and potentially more glorious reality. Johnson seeks to bridge the gap between the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by linking Spenser's strategies and themes to those of his medieval forebears, especially Chaucer. Both Edmund Spenser and his enigmatic Calender stand facing two ways, back into the age dubbed &"middle&" and forward, hailing the new; as it's study demonstrates, only by bringing these views into a single focus can we begin to appreciate the radical and innovative nature of a poem that for many heralds the renaissance of English poetry.

The Shepherds' Calendar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Shepheards Calendar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Shepheards Calendar written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)

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Publisher : Manchester Spenser
ISBN 13 : 9781526133458
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579) by : Ken Borris

Download or read book Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579) written by Ken Borris and published by Manchester Spenser. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender's development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture.

The Shepheardes Calender

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
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Book Synopsis The Shepheardes Calender by : Edmund Spenser

Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spenserian satire

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526107864
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Book Synopsis Spenserian satire by : Rachel Hile

Download or read book Spenserian satire written by Rachel Hile and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's accomplishments and influence on satiric poetry. This book argues that the indirect form of satire developed by Spenser served during and after Spenser's lifetime as an important model for other poets who wished to convey satirical messages with some degree of safety. The book connects key Spenserian texts in The Shepheardes Calender and the Complaints volume with poems by a range of authors in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Joseph Hall, Thomas Nashe, Tailboys Dymoke, Thomas Middleton and George Wither, to advance the thesis that Spenser was seen by his contemporaries as highly relevant to satire in Elizabethan England.

The Shepherd's View

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250103363
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book The Shepherd's View written by James Rebanks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd’s Life, a breathtaking book of photography and wisdom that chronicles an ancient way of living that deeply resonates in our modern world. With over eighty full color photographs The English Lake District comes into full focus: the sheep competitions of the spring, the sweeping pastures of the summer, beloved sheep dogs in the fall and the harsh snows of winter. A celebration of a way of life still very much alive, The Shepherd’s View is a poetic, and artistic achievement from one of England’s most celebrated new voices.

Complaints

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Complaints written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Shorter Poems

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Publisher : Digireads.com
ISBN 13 : 9781420950410
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Selected Shorter Poems written by Edmund Spenser and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although known best for his sweeping allegorical epic "The Faerie Queen," Edmund Spenser wrote a number of other significant poems. His first major poetical work "The Shepherd's Calendar" begins this collection of his "Selected Shorter Poems." An emulation of Virgil's "Eclogues," "The Shepherd's Calendar" depicts the life of shepherd Colin Clout through the twelve months of his year. The twelve eclogues of the poem, each named after a different month, discuss abuses of the church, offer praise for Queen Elizabeth, and reveal the struggles of a lonely shepherd. Also included in this edition of Spenser's poetry are the following poems: "The Ruins of Time," "Prosopopoia," "Muiopotmos," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Amoretti," and "Epithalamion."

Revisionary Play

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520071803
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book Revisionary Play written by Harry Berger (Jr.) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What critic of Spenser's poetry does not know, and acknowledge, a debt to Harry Berger? The collection, at last, of these seminal essays into a single volume is welcome news indeed for the generation of scholars who learned from them and can now more easily send their own students to them. . . . Their importance as documents of the discovery of Spenser, and the Spenserian mode, in the 1960s is given new prominence, moreover, by Berger's recent essays here on the 'metapastoralism' of The Shepheardes Calendar. In them, this New Critic comes home again to Spenser, recognizing the value of recent critical trends but arguing passionately for the centrality of the close reading of text. The result is a powerful case for reconciliation and consolidation of methods that have dominated literary study over the second half of this century."--Donald Cheney, co-editor of The Spenser Encyclopedia

Spenserian Moments

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Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988442
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Spenserian Moments written by Gordon Teskey and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the distinguished literary scholar Gordon Teskey comes an essay collection that restores Spenser to his rightful prominence in Renaissance studies, opening up the epic of The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature, and arguing—controversially—that it is Spenser, not Milton, who is the more important and relevant poet for the modern world. There is more adventure in The Faerie Queene than in any other major English poem. But the epic of Arthurian knights, ladies, and dragons in Faerie Land, beloved by C. S. Lewis, is often regarded as quaint and obscure, and few critics have analyzed the poem as an experiment in open thinking. In this remarkable collection, the renowned literary scholar Gordon Teskey examines the masterwork with care and imagination, explaining the theory of allegory—now and in Edmund Spenser’s Elizabethan age—and illuminating the poem’s improvisatory moments as it embarks upon fairy tale, myth, and enchantment. Milton, often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, called Spenser his “original.” But Teskey argues that while Milton’s rigid ideology in Paradise Lost has failed the test of time, Spenser’s allegory invites engagement on contemporary terms ranging from power, gender, violence, and virtue ethics, to mobility, the posthuman, and the future of the planet. The Faerie Queene was unfinished when Spenser died in his forties. It is the brilliant work of a poet of youthful energy and philosophical vision who opens up new questions instead of answering old ones. The epic’s grand finale, “The Mutabilitie Cantos,” delivers a vision of human life as dizzyingly turbulent and constantly changing, leaving a future open to everything.

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

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ISBN 13 : 9781526179043
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Rereading Chaucer and Spenser written by Rachel Stenner and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality.

Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781379246794
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (467 download)

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Book Synopsis Colin Clouts Come Home Againe by : Edmund Spenser

Download or read book Colin Clouts Come Home Againe written by Edmund Spenser and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400–1700

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004396594
Total Pages : 445 pages
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Download or read book Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400–1700 written by Francesco Venturi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of literary genres, are subjected to analysis. Self-commentaries are more than just an external apparatus: they direct and control reception of the primary text, thus affecting notions of authorship and readership. With the writer understood as a potentially very influential and often tendentious interpreter of their own work, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on pre-modern and modern forms of critical self-consciousness, self-representation, and self-validation. Contributors are Harriet Archer, Gilles Bertheau, Carlo Caruso, Jeroen De Keyser, Russell Ganim, Joseph Harris, Ian Johnson, Richard Maber, Martin McLaughlin, John O’Brien, Magdalena Ożarska, Federica Pich, Brian Richardson, Els Stronks, and Colin Thompson.

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645706
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Spenser by : Andrew Hadfield

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Spenser written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible introduction to Spenser's poetry and prose, a set of fourteen essays provide extensive commentary on his life and the historical and religious contexts in which he wrote

Spenser and Ovid

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis Spenser and Ovid by : Syrithe Pugh

Download or read book Spenser and Ovid written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that Spenser's poetry often alludes to and imitates the work of Ovid. This book represents an attempt to read as systematic this allusion and imitation of Ovid across Spencer's career which has previously been kept fragmentaryand contained.

Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133474
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579) written by Kenneth Borris and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spenser’s extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile of the 1579 Calender available as a book. The editor reconsiders the original book’s development, production, design, and particular characteristics, and demonstrates both its correlations with diverse precursors in print and its significant departures. Numerous illustrations of archival sources facilitate comparison. By reinvestigating the 1579 Calender’s twelve pictures, he shows that Spenser himself probably designed them, that they involve complex symbolism, and that this book’s meaning is thus profoundly verbal-visual. An analyzed facsimile is an essential new resource for study of Spenser’s Calender, Spenser, Elizabethan print and poetics, and early modern English literary history.