Taking a phenomenological approach to allegory, Structures of Appearing seeks to revise
the history of aesthetics, identifying it as an ideology that has long subjugated art to …

Attached to the first edition of The Faerie Queene (590) were ten dedic one of which was
addressed to Thomas Butler, tenth Earl of Ormond In the sonnet Spenser calls his epic poem …

The animal symbolism of The Faerie Queene is set against a rich background of tradition
and to read it in its fullest evocative significance, we must turn to a body of knowledge …

Artegall's limitations and those of his Legend are largely inherent in the nature of justice. The
subject of justice leads to the dream of a Golden Age in Book v, but it leads also to the …

This chapter plumbs Spenser's representations of the sea and sea-life in the context of
mounting anxiety about the decline of Britain's fisheries. It reads the fisherman's attempted …

THE'dewe observing of decorum'which EK commended in The Shepheards Calender is
equally characteristic of The Faerie Queene. Each book has its own distinctive type of …

Questions about the" unity" or" completeness" of The Faerie Queene have received a good
deal of attention. 1 Though terms and ap proaches vary, most critics seem to agree with …

After Holiness or Justice, Courtesy may appear as something of a lightweight, like reading
Pride and Prejudice after Clarissa. Telling white lies to save Priscilla's name, or restoring a …

The unfinished state of The Faerie Queene has posed the sort of critical problem that typifies
the inadequacy of some of our aesthetic concepts. It is true that Spenser composed only six …

In the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a debate has rumbled over the sources
and significance of Platonic and Neoplatonic motifs in Edmund Spenser's poetry. While this …