The poetry of the Faerie queene / Paul J. Alpers
1982, 1st edition in this form. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #408649
Physical description; 415 pp. Contents; The rhetorical mode of Spenser's narrative -- Narrative materials and stanzas of poetry -- Spenser's poetic language -- The problem of structure in The faerie queene -- Interpretation and the sixteenth-century reader -- Spenser's use of Ariosto -- Iconography in The faerie queene -- Interpreting the Cave of Mammon -- The nature of Spenser's allegory -- Heroism and human strength in Book I -- Heroic and pastoral in Book III. Subjects; Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599. Faerie queene. Criticism and interpretation. European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
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