Spenser and Donne : thinking poets / edited by Yulia Ryzhik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryzhik, Yulia, editor.

Series:

The Manchester Spenser.

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spenser, Edmund.

Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.

Donne, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This edited collection of essays brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors' poetics and thought.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on the texts

Introduction: Spenser, Donne, and the trouble of periodization

Caring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne

Comparing figures: figures of comparison and repetition in Spenser's Cantos of Mutabilitie and Donne's Anniversaries

Refiguring Donne and Spenser: aspects of Ramist rhetoric

Artes poeticae: Spenser, Donne, and the metaphysical sublime

Spenser and Donne look to the Continent

Ovidian Spenser, Ovidian Donne

Cosmic matters: Spenser, Donne, and the philosophic poem

'Straunge characters': Spenser's Busirane and Donne's 'A Valediction of my name, in the window'

Marriage and sacrifice: the poetics of the Epithalamia

Spenser's and Donne's devotional poetics of scattering

Eliot, Yeats, Joyce, and the modernist reinvention of Spenser and Donne

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

MUP 2020 titles.

Made available via: manchesterhive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526117373

1526117371

9781526117366

1526117363

OCLC:

1149149811