Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley [electronic resource] /
Danner, B.author.
Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The 1590 Faerie Queene and the origins of 'a mighty Peres displeasure -- pt. 2. The Complaints and 'the man ... of whom the muse is scorned' -- pt. 3. After the Complaints.
Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.
Literature, Modern.
History, Modern.
Great Britain—History.
British literature.
Poetry.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Modern History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.