Spenser studies
Subtitle: a Renaissance poetry annual XXIV : special issue: Spenser and Platonism
By: guest editors: Kenneth Borris, Jon Quitslund, Carol Kaske ; Spenser studies general editors: William A. Oram, Anne Lake Prescott, Thomas P. Roche, Jr
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780404192242; 9780404192006
Subjects: Platonists
Other titles: Spenser and Platonism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Spenser and Platonism / Kenneth Borris, Jon Quitslund, and Carol Kaske; title: Hallmarks of Platonism and the sons of Agape (Faerie queene IV.ii-iv) / Carol Kaske; title: Ficinian ideas in the poetry of Edmund Spenser / Valery Rees; title: Everard Digby: a syncretic philosopher at Spenser's Cambridge / Eugene D. Hill; title: Hills of contemplation and signifying circles: Spenser and Guy Le Fèvre de la Boderie / Anne Lake Prescott; title: The sincerity of rapture / Andrew Escobedo; title: Platonism and Spenser's poetic: idealized imitation, Merlin's mirror, and the florimells / Kenneth Borris; title: Spenser's Neoplatonic geography of the passions: mapping allegory in the "Legend of Temperance," Faerie queene, Book II / Catherine Gimelli Martin; title: Melancholia, mammon, and magic / Jon Quitslund; title: Green thoughts in a green shade / Kenneth Gross; title: Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist: cosmology in the Fowre hymnes / Ayesha Ramachandran; title: The lost cause of Platonism in The faerie queene / Paul Suttie; title: Spenser, Plato, and the poetics of state / Richard McCabe; title: Reassessing Ellrodt: critias and the Fowre hymnes in The faerie queene / Kenneth Borris; title: A retrograde reading of Spenser's Fowre hymnes / Gordon Teskey; title: Thinking about thinking in the Fowre hymnes / Jon Quitslund.