The Early Spenser, 1554–80
'Minde on Honour Fixed'
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5178-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5178-0 (ISBN)
Brink shows that Spenser began as the protégé of churchmen, who expected him to take holy orders and that the Shepheardes Calender signaled his transition from shepherd-priest to shepherd-poet. A -- .
Brink’s provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx’s described as ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet’. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell’s Catechism and Dean of St. Paul’s. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple.
Contextualising Spenser’s life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile. -- .
Brink’s provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx’s described as ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet’. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell’s Catechism and Dean of St. Paul’s. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple.
Contextualising Spenser’s life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile. -- .
Jean R. Brink is a Research Scholar at Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, and the founding director of the Az Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies -- .
Introduction
1 Lineage and the ‘Nowell Account Book’
2 Spenser’s education and Merchant Taylors’ School
3 Pembroke College (1569–74)
4 ‘Southerne shepheardes boye’ (1574–79)
5 Gabriel Harvey and Immerito (1569–78)
6 ‘Minde on honour fixed’: Spenser, Sidney, and the early modern chivalric code
7 Aprill and November
8 Puzzling identities: From E.K. to Roffy’s ‘boye’ to Rosalind
9 Familiar Letters (1580)
10 Ireland and the preferment of Edmund Spenser (1580)
Conclusion -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Manchester Spenser |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 black & white illustration |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 299 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5178-2 / 1526151782 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5178-0 / 9781526151780 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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