A Theatre for Spenserians : Papers of the International Spencer Colloquium Fredericton, New Brunswick October 1969 / Judith Kennedy, James Reither.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Judith, editor.

Reither, James, editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Anniversaries, etc.

Spenser, Edmund.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The International Spenser Colloquium, sponsored by St Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick, was held in Fredericton in 1969 to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Spenser's first appearance in print in A Theatre for Wordlings. The intention of the colloquium was to honour a great poet for the pleasure and profit his work continues to give and to promote understanding of his poetry through lectures, discussions, and proposals for future lines of exploration. The six original essays on Spenser's poetry contained in this volume were first presented at the colloquium. While there is a central concern with The Faerie Queene, the essays range widely through Spenser's works and treat many aspects of his poetic vision and artistry: his comic vein and his melancholy, his learning and his realism, his grand designs and his richness of detail. In their variety and vivacity the essays amply demonstrate the powerful appeal that Spenser's poetry exerts today and the quality of response it elicits

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Spenser and the ruins of time / Maclure, Millar

Three fearful symmetries and the meaning of Faerie Queene II / Hieatt, A. Kent

Emanations of glory : Neoplatonic order in Spenser's Faerie Queen / Fowler, Alastair

Spenser ludens / Nelson, William

Our new poet: Spenser, 'well of English undefyld' / Hamilton, A.C.

Spenser's Amoretti and the English sonnet tradition / Hunter, G.K.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781487590796

1487590792

9781487589189

1487589182

OCLC:

1006398489