Spenser's international style /
David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long standing questions about Edmund Spenser's style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Texts and abbreviations; Introduction: the persistence of form; Method; Tasso; Period style; Theory and practice; Reluctances; Chapter one Why stanzas for epic?; Technicalities and technique; Spenser as the modern Virgil; Gothic v. classical; Stanzaic prosody: England v. Italy; Why not blank verse?; Why poets wanted to write in quantitative meter; Artificial stanzas; Stanzas and substitution; Seeds and surfaces; Chapter two Historical assessments; Two arguments for style; Epic style as a critical problem.
- Archaism: Gothic survival or classical revival?"The song / That, like a snake, drags its slow length along"; Chapter three Flowery style; Defining lyric; The three styles; Definitions of the middle style; How to identify the middle style; Middle-style figures of speech; Where the flowery style should not be used; Lyrical line endings; The problem of a mixed style; Lascivious figures of speech; Practical eloquence; Leisurely and non-leisurely episodes; Lyrical figures of speech in The Faerie Queene; Chapter four Triumph of the flowery style; Ariostos lyricism; Tasso's defense of Ariosto.
- Love as the subject of modern poetryLove and the style of modern poetry; Sweetness and romance; Poetry as praise; Cicero and rhyme; Imitating Petrarch; Sermon style; Copia, or faking the grand style; Ornament equals gravity; Figures of speech as poetic diction; Vernacular anxiety; Chapter five Ornamentalism; Substitution; Tragic intensity; Ornamentalism; The garment of style; Animals and angels; The naked word; Ars gratia humanitatis; Ornamental and dramatic codes of representation; Proper or probable?; In defense of obscurity; Feminine rhyme; Alone with his books; La rime riche.
- The meaning of feminine rhymeThe garden and the city; Chapter Six Private virtues, comic style; Tasso's roughness; The epic without war; War and Spenser's literary career; Second tenor; Did Spenser give up?; Public and private; Contemplation, then action; Comedy and tragedy; Spenser's comedy of private life; Epilogue; Index of names, subjects, and sources.