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Constructing Sonnet Sequences in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance : A Study of Six Poets. Chapter Three: Spenser's Amoretti and the Poetics of Ethical Challenge
These essays consider Edmund Spenser's literary origins, his representations and influences on sixteenth-century culture, and his impact on later writers. His long and short poetry is considered, as well as his prose.
The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing.