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The new poet : novelty and tradition in Spenser's Complaints /

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 Hubberd?s Tale? and?Muiopotmos?, Brow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Richard Danson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Liverpool English texts and studies ; 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.