Jean R. Brink

The early Spenser, 1554-80 (eBook, ePUB)

'Minde on honour fixed'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526142603
• Artikelnr.: 57931022

Autorenporträt

Jean R. Brink is a Research Scholar at Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, and the founding director of the Az Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Lineage and the 'Nowell Account Book' 2 Spenser's education
and Merchant Taylors' School 3 Pembroke College (1569-74) 4 'Southerne
shepheardes boye' (1574-79) 5 Gabriel Harvey and Immerito (1569-78) 6
'Minde on honour fixed': Spenser, Sidney, and the early modern chivalric
code 7 Aprill and November 8 Puzzling identities: From E.K. to Roffy's
'boye' to Rosalind 9 Familiar Letters (1580) 10 Ireland and the preferment
of Edmund Spenser (1580) Conclusion