The Shepherds' Calendar
Author: Edmund Spenser
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 206
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Author: Edmund Spenser
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 206
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 266
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Publisher: Burt Franklin
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpenser's brilliant use of the literary conventions of the pastoral to satirize the contemporary political milieu in Elizabethan England.
Author: Edmund Spenser
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Published: 1579
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Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 100
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynn Staley Johnson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0271041005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem in its literary, social, political , and cultural context, contributing to our understanding of the relationship between Spenser and his times. She pays particular attention to the emergence of the myth of Elizabeth and of England during the first half of Elizabeth's reign and the ways in which the young Spenser manipulated the concerns and issues of the time, transforming popular culture into literary expression. By its active engagement with both the present and the past, the Calender suggests Spenser's conception of poetry as informed dialogue designed for social work, offering a reinterpretation of the relationship between the poet and his community. Choosing not to be circumscribed by the voices of his significant historical and literary past, the Calender proclaims the poet, not as transmitter or mediator, but as an active and shaping force, capable of remaking the present by offering his age a picture of a new and potentially more glorious reality. Johnson seeks to bridge the gap between the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by linking Spenser's strategies and themes to those of his medieval forebears, especially Chaucer. Both Edmund Spenser and his enigmatic Calender stand facing two ways, back into the age dubbed &"middle&" and forward, hailing the new; as it's study demonstrates, only by bringing these views into a single focus can we begin to appreciate the radical and innovative nature of a poem that for many heralds the renaissance of English poetry.
Author: John Clare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0199672229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.
Author: Edmund Spenser
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Published: 1732
Total Pages: 302
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 175
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