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Drawing on up-to-date research, this book presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer, through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser and a host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these authors worked, to the great achievements of John Milton.
Drawing on up-to-date research, this book presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer, through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser and a host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these authors worked, to the great achievements of John Milton.
David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long standing questions about Edmund Spenser's style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.
"Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about Spenser's epic style, and if so…
"Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about Spenser's epic style, and if so…
"Why did Spenser write his epic, The Faerie Queene, in stanzas instead of a classical meter or blank verse? Why did he affect the vocabulary of medieval poets such as Chaucer? Is there, as centuries of readers have noticed, something lyrical about Spenser's epic style, and if so…
David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long standing questions about Edmund Spenser's style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.
