How Spenser Excavates Du Bellay's "Antiquitez"; Or, The Role of the Poet, Lyric Historiography, and the English Sonnet

Coldiron shows that even as Edmund Spenser replicates closely Du Bellay's content and "mille lumieres," Spenser also creates a new way of writing the lyric sequence, and a newly optimistic view of the poet's role in history.

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Published inJournal of English and Germanic philology Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 41 - 67
Main Author Coldiron, A. E. B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Urbana University of Illinois Press 01.01.2002
Subjects
Analysis
Bellay, Joachim du (1522-60)
Couplets
Criticism and interpretation
Du Bellay, Joachim
English language
Historiography
Language history
Language translation
Literary criticism
Lyric poetry
Meditation
Pastoral poetry
Philology
Poetics
Poetry
Poets
Religious poetry
Song lyrics
Sonnets
Spenser, Edmund
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
Translations
France
United Kingdom
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Summary:Coldiron shows that even as Edmund Spenser replicates closely Du Bellay's content and "mille lumieres," Spenser also creates a new way of writing the lyric sequence, and a newly optimistic view of the poet's role in history.
ISSN:0363-6941
1945-662X