'The New Poet': Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

by Richard Danson Brown

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853238138
• ISBN13: 9780853238133
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages