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...
| Published in: | Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 2; pp. 253 - 280 |
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| Format: | Poetry Review |
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University of North Carolina Press
Spring2019
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