The Shepheardes Calender - An Introduction
Language: English
Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Cloth, dj, F/F. x+227pp, index, slight spotting to the fore edge, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Reassessment of Edmund Spencer's 1579 poem 'The Shepheardes Calender' which places the poem in its literary, social, political and cultural context. It was Spenser's first major poetic work, an emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues. The title, like the entire work, is written using deliberately archaic spellings, in order to suggest a connection to medieval literature. 600 grams.
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- Title
- The Shepheardes Calender - An Introduction
- Author
- Johnson, Lynn Staley
- Publisher
- The Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0271006994
- ISBN 13
- 9780271006994
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Item weight
- 600 grams
- Seller catalogs
- English Literature, Literary Criticism
The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem in its literary, social, political , and cultural context, contributing to our understanding of the relationship between Spenser and his times. She pays particular attention to the emergence of the myth of Elizabeth and of England during the first half of Elizabeth's reign and the ways in which the young Spenser manipulated the concerns and issues of the time, transforming popular culture into literary expression.
By its active engagement with both the present and the past, the Calender suggests Spenser's conception of poetry as informed dialogue designed for social work, offering a reinterpretation of the relationship between the poet and his community. Choosing not to be circumscribed by the voices of his significant historical and literary past, the Calender proclaims the poet, not as transmitter or mediator, but as an active and shaping force, capable of remaking the present by offering his age a picture of a new and potentially more glorious reality.
Johnson seeks to bridge the gap between the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by linking Spenser's strategies and themes to those of his medieval forebears, especially Chaucer. Both Edmund Spenser and his enigmatic Calender stand facing two ways, back into the age dubbed "middle" and forward, hailing the new; as it's study demonstrates, only by bringing these views into a single focus can we begin to appreciate the radical and innovative nature of a poem that for many heralds the renaissance of English poetry.
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