The Early Spenser, 1554-80 : 'Minde on Honour Fixed' Paperback / softback
by Jean R. Brink
Part of the The Manchester Spenser series
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Brink’s provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx’s described as ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet’.
In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders.
Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell’s Catechism and Dean of St.
Paul’s. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580).
He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple.
Contextualising Spenser’s life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code.
His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile. -- .
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- Pages:256 pages, 1 black & white illustration
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- Publication Date:08/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781526151780
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 1 black & white illustration
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:08/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526151780
