Spenser's Secret Career (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780521030939
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; English; Eastern Europe; Historical - British; Literary; Political; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography & Autobiography-Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography-Political; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Spenser, Edmund, --1552?-1599--Political and; Spenser, Edmund,--1552?-1599--Political and social views; General; Eastern European
First sentence: In his important and influential book Self-Crowned Laureates, Richard Helgerson contends that Spenser, and following him Jonson and Milton, constituted themselves as poets laureate by programmatically, virtuosically, differing from, the prevailing models for a literary career.