Spenser
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays.
Series: Twentieth century views; A Spectrum book.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: Wide-ranging opinions on the language and symbolism of Spenser's poetry.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by H. Berger.; title: The World's vanity, by W. Nelson.; title: The argument of Spenser's Shepheardes calender, by A. C. Hamilton.; title: Spenser's Sweete Themmes: Of time and the river, by M. L. Wine.; title: The triumph over hasty accidents: A note on the symbolic mode of the Epithalamion, by R. Neuse.; title: From Plowman and knight: The hero's dual identity, by D. Cheney.; title: The fall of Guyon, by M. Evans.; title: Venus and Diana: Some uses of myth, in The Faerie queene, by K. Williams.; title: The legend of justice: The idol and the crocodile, by W. Nelson.; title: The virtuous and gentle discipline of gentlemen and poets, by W. V. Nestrick.; title: The mutabilitie cantos: Archaism and evolution in retrospect, by H. Berger.; title: Selected bibliography (p. 180-182)