"A balanced, coherent reading that is both enlightening and full of delight." —Choice
"My hope has been to provide students (and teachers) of Spenser's epic with ways of approaching the poem. The first part of the book is concerned with contexts—the life of Spenser, some forms the epic took before (and after) his own, the pervasiveness of certain literary figures (like Chaucer) and figures from literature (like Arthur) during his time. In discussing these topics, I have also tried to place Spenser's text itself. The chapter on overall structure, where others have preceded me, is intended to fasten on the whole poem. The next, on Pageantry, is my own foray into the subject and strategems of Allegory, though I have chosen to speak of Allegory in terms the poem (and not simply the Letter to Raleigh) constantly employs. This chapter and the last three then focus on the 'play of double senses' (a text derived from Book III, canto iv, stanza 28) as I see it working in specific ways in the epic, thus suggesting how Spenser participates in the epic tradition that I sketched in Chapter II." —from the Preface
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A. Bartlett Giamatti, at the time of his death Commissioner of Baseball, was a former professor of English and president of Yale University.
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Of all the critical works I could find on the FQ, whether on Amazon or in the huge library system in my county, this ranked among the best. It is simple, well argued and worthwhile. Weird - the author was commissioner of baseball.
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We know little of the early life of Edmund Spenser. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inner soundness, inward sound, canto xii, canto viii Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Faerie Queene, Colin Clout, Graunde Amour, Sir Thopas, Blatant Beast, Faery Land, Isis Church, Mount Acidale, Orlando Furioso, Paradise Lost, Temple of Venus, Faery Queen, Lady Fame, Sir Philip Sidney, Don Quixote, Francis Petrarch, Spenser's Proteus, The Canterbury Tales, The Pastime of Pleasure New!
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We know little of the early life of Edmund Spenser. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inner soundness, inward sound, canto xii, canto viii Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Faerie Queene, Colin Clout, Graunde Amour, Sir Thopas, Blatant Beast, Faery Land, Isis Church, Mount Acidale, Orlando Furioso, Paradise Lost, Temple of Venus, Faery Queen, Lady Fame, Sir Philip Sidney, Don Quixote, Francis Petrarch, Spenser's Proteus, The Canterbury Tales, The Pastime of Pleasure New!
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- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 43 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 21, page 22, and page 26
- Orlando Furioso: A Romantic Epic: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 22, and page 31
- Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic by A. Bartlett Giamatti in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Matteo Maria Boiardo on page 22, and page 31
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