The Reformation of the Subject
Subtitle: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780521034906
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; Spenser, Edmund, --1552?-1599.--Faerie queene; Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599.--Faerie queene
First sentence: The narrative sequence of Spenser's Faerie Queene is such that we know his Knight of Chastity by her prowess and her cause before we know her by her motives, or her causes.