The New Poet

The New Poet
Author :
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 303
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781781387795
ISBN-13 : 1781387796
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The New Poet by : Richard Danson Brown

Download or read book The New Poet written by Richard Danson Brown and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career. While there has been a good deal written in recent years on two of the poems in the collection, ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale’ and ‘Muiopotmos’, Brown innovatively addresses the collection in its entirety. He urges us to see it as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: he fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but he examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature of poetry and the auspices for writing in a modern world, distancing itself from the traditions of the immediate past. The strength of this work lies both in the originality of its project and in the precision and enterprise of the close reading that informs its argument. Interest in the concern of Spenser’s poetry with the nature of poetry is in the current critical mainstream, but here the attentiveness is both unusually focused and unusually sustained. Brown garners more than would be expected from the translations in the Complaints, while at the same time including striking and individual chapters on the better known ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale’ and ‘Muiopotmos’; he advances understanding of these extremely subtle texts and fully justifies his wider approach to the collection as a whole. Arguing that Spenser’s relationship to literary tradition is more complex than is often thought, Brown suggests that Spenser was a self-conscious innovator whose gradual move away from traditional poetics is exhibited by the different texts in the Complaints. He further suggests that the Complaints are a ‘poetics in practice’, which progress from traditional ideas of poetry to a new poetry that emerges through Spenser’s transformation of traditional complaint.


The New Poet Related Books

The New Poet
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Richard Danson Brown
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04-01 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This gracefully written and well thought-out study deals with a neglected collection of poems by Spenser, which was issued in 1591 at the height of his career.
The Emblem
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: John Manning
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-04 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

John Manning's The Emblem charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixte
Astraea
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Frances Amelia Yates
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Of Chastity and Power
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Philippa Berry
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through a reading of the texts of Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Spenser and Shakespeare, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neopa
Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Rebeca Helfer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture f