Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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... poet alone can give him . Again , Spenser conceived of his poetic function as being a uniquely national one ; he wished to write an English poem that would match if not surpass the classical epic of Homer and Virgil and the contemporary ...
... poet alone can give him . Again , Spenser conceived of his poetic function as being a uniquely national one ; he wished to write an English poem that would match if not surpass the classical epic of Homer and Virgil and the contemporary ...
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... poet's poet is best brought out in a great poem like Shelley's The Witch of Atlas , where the world of The Faerie Queene is relied upon as being the universe of poetry itself . To understand the unique nature of Spenser's poetry is to ...
... poet's poet is best brought out in a great poem like Shelley's The Witch of Atlas , where the world of The Faerie Queene is relied upon as being the universe of poetry itself . To understand the unique nature of Spenser's poetry is to ...
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... poet is so closely tied to his assess- ment of the city as an index to his culture's viability . That assessment is a mixed one . If , as I believe , Spenser's career demonstrates a " growth of the poet's mind , " a developing ...
... poet is so closely tied to his assess- ment of the city as an index to his culture's viability . That assessment is a mixed one . If , as I believe , Spenser's career demonstrates a " growth of the poet's mind , " a developing ...
Contents
Mythologies and Metrics in Spenser Kenneth Gross | 219 |
Envy in the Middest of the 1596 | 267 |
Chronology | 285 |
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