Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero

by Christopher Bond

Book Overview

This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poems' primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644531305
• ISBN13: 9781644531303
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher