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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 32 |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 32
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| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Subject unto chaunge': Spenser's Complaints and the New Poetry; Part One: The Translations; 1: 'Clowdie teares': Poetic and Doctrinal Tensions in Virgils Gnat; 2: Forming the 'first garland of free Poësie' in France and England, 1558-91; Part Two: The Major Complaints; 3: The Major Complaints; 4: Poetry's 'liuing tongue' in The Teares of the Muses; 5: Cracking the Nut? Mother Hubberds Tale's Attack on Traditional Notions of Poetic Value; 6: 'Excellent device and wondrous slight': Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics |
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7: The New Poetry beyond the ComplaintsAppendix: Urania-Astraea and 'Divine Elisa' in The Teares of the Muses (ll. 527-88); Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career. While there has been a good deal written in recent years on two of the poems in the collection, Mother Hubberds Tale and Muiopotmos, Brown innovatively addresses the collection in its entirety. He urges us to see it as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: he fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but he examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Complaints
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English Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846313660 |
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184631366X |
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0853238138 |
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9780853238133 |
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0853238030 |
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9780853238034 |
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1781387796 |
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9781781387795 |
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