Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16612577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William C Johnson (0000-0003-3649-2118, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 816-817 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2542417 |
| OpenAlex | W2076101587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In this extended treatment of Edmund Spenser's place in the Reformation literary tradition, John King presents the poet as a rival of classical and Italianate literary predecessors by placing his work within a distinctively English context. Rather than follow those contemporaries who rejected the unpretentious devices of mid-Tudor satire and allegory, Spenser, it is shown, infuses them with sophisticated standards of the Continental Renaissance. King's study begins with the consideration of Spenser's debut as an innovator who, paradoxically, emulates Chaucerian precedent for pastoral satire. By revising critical opinions that identify an iconoclastic movement in The Faerie Queene, he demonstrates the constructive aspect of the Reformation attack against idolatry that underlies the pervasive inversion and mutation of iconic tableaux in the poem. This study culminates in a detailed reading of Book I of The Faerie Queene that addresses Spenser's reformation, within the all-inclusive frame of allegorical romantic epic, of deficient and worldly forms of romance, pastoral, and tragedy into a set of purged and elevated Christian counterparts
Allegory · Art · Context (archaeology · Literature · Of Reformation · Poetry · Romance · Theology · Tragedy (event · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture
Spenser And Religion—Yet Again
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
Hymnic Epic and The Faerie Queene ’s Original Printed Format
The Renaissance Footprint
The Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Studies
William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and the question of Anglo‐Irish literature
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2018 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |