Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition

by John N. King

In this extended treatment of Edmund Spenser's place in the Reformation literary tradition, John King presents the poet as a rival of classical and Italianate literary predecessors by placing his work within a distinctively English context. Rather than follow those contemporaries who rejected the unpretentious devices of mid-Tudor satire and allegory, Spenser, it is shown, infuses them with sophisticated standards of the Continental Renaissance. King's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068003
• ISBN13: 9780691068008
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"