| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages) |
| Contents |
The Maker's Mind -- The Author in 1580 and 1590 -- The Subject of Gender -- The Poet's Career in 1580 and 1590 -- Dialogical Relations between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser -- The World and the Book -- Nature and Myth -- 'The whole circle or compasse of Learning' -- The Poem as Heterocosm -- 'Deepe within the mynd' -- The Poet as Magus and Viator -- Isomorphism of the Soul and the World -- Socratic and Esoteric Humanism -- Poetic and Philosophical Discourses -- Spenser's Poetry and Ficinian Platonism -- Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid -- The Organic Soul or Spiritus -- Landino's Commentary on the Aeneid -- English Protestant Responses to Platonic Natural Philosophy -- 'Within This Wide Great Vniuerse' -- Nature in The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Phenomena -- Hierarchical and Dynamic Principles -- Night and Day; Destiny, Necessity, Providence -- Fate and Fortune -- Strife and Love -- The Four Elements -- Sprights and Spirits -- Decay -- Reading the Garden of Adonis Canto -- Sources of the Source -- Reading the Garden as a Woman -- Courtly and Erudite Trattati d'Amore -- Formal Symmetries in the Garden Canto -- The Ontological Status of the Garden -- Gender Roles and Family Life in the Garden -- 'In the thickest couert of that shade' -- The Work of Mourning -- The Platonic Program of the Garden Canto -- Leone Ebreo's Exposition of Two Myths in The Symposium -- Louis Le Roy's Le Sympose de Platon -- Marsilio Ficino's De Amore -- Aristophanes' Myth and the Daughters of Chrysogone |
| Summary |
Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
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Plato -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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Spenser, Edmund. Faerie queene. swd |
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Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Platonismus
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442680111 |
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1442680113 |
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