The early Spenser, 1554-80 : 'Minde on honour fixed' / by Jean Brink

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brink, J. R., author.

Series:

The Manchester Spenser.

Manchester Shakespeare

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.

Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretation.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Early Spenser, 1554-80

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Lineage and Early Life Records

Chapter 2: Spenser's education: ' Fashioning . . . In vertuous and gentle discipline'

Chapter 3: Spenser and harvey at Pembroke (1569-1574)

Chapter 4: 'the Southerne Shepheardes boye' (1574-1578)

Chapter 5: Harvey vs. Spenser (1578)

Chapter 6: 'Minde on Honour fixed': Sidney, Spenser, and the Early Modern Chivalric Code

Chapter 7: Politics and the Shepheardes Calender (1579)

Chapter 8: Spenser, Harvey, and E. K. (1579)

Chapter 9: Spenser, harvey, and nashe in Familiar Letters

Chapter 10: The Preferment of Edmund Spenser.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781526142597

1526142597

OCLC:

1155118682