Patrick Cullen and Thomas P. Roche, Jr., eds. Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Vol. 10. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1992. xi + 292 pp. $45 institutions; $25 individuals. - H. Yamashita, H. Sato, T. Suzuki, A. Takano, eds. A Textual Companion to The Faerie Queene, 1590. Electronic Version. Ed. Kenyusha Books Co., 1992.

1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-648
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Renaissance Poetry ◽  
The Faerie Queene

Spenser's Theory of Courtesy

PMLA ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Judson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
The Faerie Queene ◽  
Courtesy Literature ◽  
The Ideal

Professor H. S. V. Jones in his recently published Spenser Handbook (New York, 1930) has an interesting and valuable chapter on Book vi of The Faerie Queene. Much of his discussion is concerned with the so-called courtesy literature of the Renaissance, which offers striking parallels to Spenser's illustration of the virtue of courtesy. According to Professor Jones, Spenser's object in Book vi is “to exhibit in his allegory certain articles in that familiar creed of courtesy which had been stated and expounded in many doctrinal treatises of the Renaissance, and to oppose to the ideal of the gentleman the forces which were hostile to its realization.”

Graham Hough. A Preface to The Faerie Queene. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963. 239 pp. $4.50.

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-337
Author(s):  
Virgil B. HeltZel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Faerie Queene ◽  
The Faerie Queene

"A Moniment Forever More": "The Faerie Queene" and British Art, 1770 – 1950

1990 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
FARMER
Keyword(s):  
Faerie Queene ◽  
British Art ◽  
The Faerie Queene

Of Reformed Versifying

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Native Form ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
English Verse ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Faerie Queene ◽  
Stylistic Ideal

This chapter examines how the development of English poetry in the second half of the sixteenth century is characterized by the search for an appropriate style. In this context, ‘reformed versifying’ may be understood as a reconciliation of high and low in which the common is reconfigured as a stylistic ideal of the mean. That development can be traced in debates about prosody where an alternative sense of ‘reformed versifying’ as adapting classical metres to English verse is rejected in favour of native form. At the same time Sidney recuperates poetry by reforming it as an agent of virtue. Reformation and Renaissance finally come together in Spenser, who realizes Erasmus’ aim of harmonizing the values of classical literature with Christian doctrine, and reconciles the foreign and the ‘homewrought’. The Faerie Queene of 1590 represents the triumph of the mean in both style and, through its celebration of marriage, in substance.

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