Spenser's forms of history
By: Bart van Es.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- History.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Historical poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Great Britain -- Historiography.
Description: Bart van Es presents a study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of 'forms of history' - chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology, political prophecy and others - in both his poetry and his prose and assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-232) and index.
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge.