Lyric Address and Spenser's Reinvention of the Proem.

In The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser establishes the form of the poetic proem for subsequent English literature. Taking models from Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the lyric addresses to muses and patrons in European epic, he transforms these prefatory lyrics in a constantly changing evolution. As...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 2; pp. 253 - 280
Main Author: Oram, William A.
Format: Poetry Review
Published: University of North Carolina Press Spring2019
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