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The New Poet

Novelty and Tradition in Spenser’s Complaints

By: Richard Danson Brown

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The New Poet

Novelty and Tradition in Spenser’s Complaints

By: Richard Danson Brown

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.

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Liverpool University Press

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1781387796

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The art of The Faerie Queene

By: Richard Danson Brown

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The art of The Faerie Queene

By: Richard Danson Brown

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.

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Manchester University Press

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1526134632

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9781526134639

Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

By: Richard Danson Brown

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Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

By: Richard Danson Brown

This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands, exploring MacNeice's ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet and the self-consciousness in his writing.

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Liverpool University Press

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0746311850

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Worldly Shakespeare

The Theatre of Our Good Will

By: Wilson Richard Wilson

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Worldly Shakespeare

The Theatre of Our Good Will

By: Wilson Richard Wilson

In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Rancire and Slavoj A iA ek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'.Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474411339

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Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment

Travels Through France, Italy, and Scotland

By: Richard J. Jones

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Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment

Travels Through France, Italy, and Scotland

By: Richard J. Jones

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but in the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a "travel narrative" but Jones argues that it should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611480485

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9781611480481

James Thomson

Essays for the Tercentenary

By: Richard Terry

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James Thomson

Essays for the Tercentenary

By: Richard Terry

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomson’s writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analysing the politics and aesthetics of Thomson’s major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalises on the certainty felt by many in Thomson’s own century that the poet, especially through his most successful poem The Seasons, had won for himself an indelible fame. This volume provides a definitive reappraisal of his achievement for our own times.

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Liverpool University Press

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1846313376

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9781846313370

Spenser's Monstrous Regiment

Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference

By: Richard A. McCabe

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Spenser's Monstrous Regiment

Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference

By: Richard A. McCabe

Spenser's Monstrous Regiment is a stimulating and scholarly account of how the experience of living and writing in Ireland qualified Spenser's attitude towards female "regiment" and challenged his notions of English nationhood. Including a trenchant discussion of the influence of colonialism upon the structure, themes, imagery, and language of Spenser's poetry, this is the first major study of Spenser's canon to engage with primary Gaelic materials in its assessment of his relationship with native Irish and Old English culture.

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OUP Oxford

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0199282048

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The art of The Faerie Queene

By: Richard Danson Brown

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By: Richard Danson Brown

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Manchester University Press

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The New Poet

Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

By: Richard Danson Brown

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The New Poet

Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

By: Richard Danson Brown

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.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853238030

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9780853238034

Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

By: Richard Danson Brown

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Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

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This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands, exploring MacNeice's ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet and the self-consciousness in his writing.

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Shakespeare 1609

Cymbeline and the Sonnets

By: Richard Danson Brown,David Johnson

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Shakespeare 1609

Cymbeline and the Sonnets

By: Richard Danson Brown,David Johnson

How has Shakespeare been interpreted since his death in 1616? How are we to explain the posthumous fame that surrounds the name Shakespeare? This textbook considers these questions through case studies of two texts that appeared in about 1609 - Cymbeline, as a play on the London stage, and The Sonnets as a Quarto volume. As well as being roughly contemporaneous, these texts have been received more ambiguously than the majority of the Shakesperean canon. Cymbeline has been widely neglected, while the current fame of Shakespeare's sonnets was not anticipated by the 17th-century reading public, who largely ignored the volume. This study looks at these works and considers their generic distinctiveness, their complex representations of sexuality, and the varied ways in which they have been received by subsequent generations. It includes key secondary readings from influential critics.

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MacMillan

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0333913183

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Worldly Shakespeare

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Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment

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