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Author Herron, Thomas

Title Spenser's Irish Work : Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation
Published Brookfield : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction Ruin or Monument? Cultivating Optimism in Early Modern Ireland; Part I Finding Spenser's Ireland; 1 Spenser and the Anxious Critics; 2 Spenser's Plantation Life; 3 Planting Reformation in Ireland: Walshe, Smith, Robinson, and Bryskett; 4 Spenser's Heroic Legacy in Munster Verse: Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane; Part II Creating The Faerie Queene: Rethinking Book I From Within a Georgic-Irish Paradigm; 5 Elemental Violence and the Virgilian Ladder
6 Flourishing Monarchs: Virgil's Georgics, Gavin Douglas, and the Proem to The Faerie Queene7 Plain Thinking and Civic Celebration in Book I; Part III Local Adversity and Apocalyptic Triumph: Books V, VI, and VII of The Faerie Queene; 8 Imperial Coda: Elizabethan Progress and The Mutabilitie Cantos -- 9 Pagan hound: CĂșchulainn, the Souldan, and the Spanish Armada in Book V; 10 Taming Raleigh's Beast: Monastic Dissolution and Local Politics in Book VI; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
SUBJECT Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast
Subject Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism
Epic poetry, English
Homes
Ireland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351898676
1351898671