The Art of the Faerie Queene (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780719087325)

The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this book presents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus proposing new ways of understanding the Elizabethan poetic Renaissance. The book moves from the individual words of the poem to metre, rhyme and stanza form onto its larger structures of canto and book. It will be of particular relevance to undergraduates studying Elizabethan poetry, graduate students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, for whom the formal aspect of the poetry has been a topic of growing relevance in recent years.

Author: Richard Danson Brown
ISBN-10: 0719087325
ISBN-13: 9780719087325
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2018
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019