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The Shepherds' Calendar

Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 206

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The Shepherds' Calendar

Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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The Shepheardes Calender

Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Spenser's brilliant use of the literary conventions of the pastoral to satirize the contemporary political milieu in Elizabethan England.

The Shepherd's Calendar

Author: John Clare
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The Shepherd's Calendar

Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The Shepheardes Calendar

Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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The Shepheardes Calender

Author: Lynn Staley Johnson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041005
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
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.