The Fowre Hymns
The Fowre Hymns

Author: Edmund Spenser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1107669766

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Originally published in 1907, this book contains the text of Edmund Spenser's philosophical 'Fowre Hymnes'. Winstanley's introduction and notes detail the heavy influence of Platonic philosophy on Spenser's writings, particularly the role and function of the various kinds of love. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Spenser's works and in Elizabethan poetry.

In the Anteroom of Divinity
In the Anteroom of Divinity

Author: Feisal Gharib Mohamed

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0802097928

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In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet's commentary on Dionysisus' twin hierarchies, Feisal G. Mohamed explores the significance of the Dionysian tradition to the conformism debate of the 1590s through works by Richard Hooker and Edmund Spenser. He then turns to John Donne and John Milton to shed light on their constructions of godly poetics, politics and devotion, and provides the most extensive study of Milton's angelology in more than fifty years. With new philosophical, theological, and literary insights, this work offers a contribution to intellectual history and the history of religion in critical moments of the English Reformation.

The Three Genres and the Interpretation of Lyric
The Three Genres and the Interpretation of Lyric

Author: William Elford Rogers

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1400856671

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William Elford Rogers proposes a genre-theory that will clarify what we mean when we speak of literary works as dramatic, epic, or lyric. Focusing on lyric poetry, this book maintains that the broad genre-concepts need not be discarded but can be preserved by a new interpretive model that gives us conceptual knowledge not about works but about interpretation. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.