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

• Published in: Journal of English and Germanic philology Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 41 - 67
• Main Author: Coldiron, A. E. B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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.