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David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer : Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott / Anne Lake Prescott; ed. by Roger Kuin, William A. Oram.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prescott, Anne Lake, Author.
- Series:
- The Manchester Spenser
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 18 b&w illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies. A force, because of her unique blend of learning and wit and an inspiration through her tireless encouragement of younger scholars and students. Her passion has always been the invisible bridge across the Channel: the complex of relations, literary and political, between Britain and France. The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard. Prescott has a particular fondness for King David, who appears several times; and the reader will encounter chessmen, bishops, male lesbian voices and Roman whores. Always Prescott’s immense erudition is accompanied by a sly and gentle wit that invites readers to share her amusement. Reading her is a joyful education.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Poetic fire
- I Spenser
- 1 Spenser’s chivalric restoration
- 2 Foreign policy in Fairyland
- 3 The thirsty deer and the Lord of Life
- II The Psalms and the psalmist
- 4 Evil tongues at the court of Saul
- 5 Musical strains
- 6 King David as a ‘right poet’
- 7 The countess of Pembroke’s Ruins of Rome
- III Imagining gender
- 8 Male lesbian voices
- 9 Family grief
- IV Italy, France, England
- 10 Translatio lupae
- 11 Housing chessmen and bagging bishops
- 12 Imperfect pearls from France
- Afterword
- Bibliography of works by Anne Lake Prescott
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
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