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Spenser, The Faerie queene : a casebook /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Macmillan,
1977.
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| Series: | Casebook series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticism
- John Hughes (1715)
- William Hazlitt (1818)
- Edward Dowden (1882)
- Part II: Introducing the poem
- 1. Sources and influences
- H.G. Lotspeich: Classical mythology in Spenser's poetry (1932)
- H.H. Blanchard: Spenser and Boiardo (1925)
- R.E. Neil Dodge: Spenser's imitations from Ariosto (1897)
- P.J. Alpers: Spenser's use of Ariosto (1967)
- Rosemond Tuve: Spenser and medieval romances (1966)
- 2. Allegory
- Graham Hough: Allegory in The Faerie Queene (1962)
- Maurice Evans: Spenserean allegory (1970)
- 3. Rhetoric, language, versification
- P.J. Alpers: The rhetorical mode of Spenser's narrative (1967)
- Martha Craig: The secret wit of Spenser's language (1967)
- William Empson: Spenser's rhythm (1930)
- Northrop Frye: Verbal 'opsis' in Spenser
- Harry S. Berger, Jr.: Conspicuous irrelevance (1957)
- Part III: General twentieth-century studies
- C.S. Lewis: 'To read him is to grow in mental health' (1936)
- A.C. Hamilton: The 'architectonike' of the poem (1961)
- William Nelson: That true glorious type (1963)
- Frank Kermode: 'The element of historical allegory' (1964)
- Peter Bayley: The poetic achievment (1971)
- Alastair Fowler: Neoplatonic order in The Faerie Queene (1973)
- A. Kent Hieatt: A Spenser to structure our myths
- Select bibliography
- Notes on contributors
- Index.