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Hace 3 días · England’s own post-Armada spirit of Protestant militantism and adventuring entrepreneurism was especially welcoming to this type of literary fiction, embodied by such allegorical figures as the lady knight Britomart, whose very name brings together Britishness and martial prowess in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596), engaged in interfaith battles against Saracens and a ...
Hace 2 días · Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Edmund Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.
Hace 3 días · In his contribution to Andrew Melville, Williamson argues that Melville, David Hume of Godscroft and Edmund Spenser had much in common in their reading of this struggle. Melville and Spenser drew on opposing national origin myths, and thus Melville envisaged for Scotland a central role that Spenser sought to deny.
Hace 2 días · THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSEProemi Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did.
Hace 3 días · Over the next twenty years, authors including Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, Fulke Greville, Samuel Daniel, William Drummond of Hawthornden, and of course William Shakespeare, created sonnet sequences. Literature during this period is commonly credited to the Elizabethan Era, and referred to as Elizabethan sonnets.
Hace 19 horas · Spenser Studies is devoted to the study of Edmund Spenser as well as the poetry of Renaissance England. Contributions examine Spenser’s place in literary history, the social and religious contexts of his writing, and the philosophical and conceptual problems he grapples with in his art.
Hace 5 días · Ruins Of Rome, By Bellay. The Teares Of The Muses. 1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the which shall never die Through your.
