DomainMonograph or Collective Volume
TitleSpenser's Irish work : poetry, plantation and colonial reformation
AuthorHerron, Thomas, 1968-
Publication Date2007
PublisherAshgate
Place Of PublicationAldershot
Number Of Pages278 p.
Era Covered1580 — 1600
LanguageEnglish
ISBN
Subject Classification
Person As SubjectSpenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
PlaceEngland and Wales
CountryIreland
NotesContents: Spenser and the anxious critics -- Spenser's plantation life -- Planting reformation in Ireland : Walshe, Smith, Robinson, and Bryskett -- Spenser's heroic legacy in Munster verse : Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane -- Elemental violence and the Virgilian ladder -- Flourishing monarchs : Virgil's Georgics, Gavin Douglas, and the proem to The faerie queene -- Plain thinking and civic celebration in Book I -- Imperial coda : Elizabethan progress and The Mutabilitie cantos -- Pagan hound : Cu´chulainn, the Souldan, and the Spanish Armada in Book V -- Taming Raleigh's beast : monastic dissolution and local politics in Book VI.
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