This essay begins by asking what exactly it means to “know” Colin Clout in his several and striking appearances in Spenser’s poems. It goes on to consider the help in answering this question that a modern reader of Spenser might glean from writers and theorists of autofiction today. It points out three areas in which an understanding of autofictional techniques and values helps to shed light on the complex literary persona and praxis of Spenser’s Colin Clout—worldliness, voice, and performance—and sets out some exploratory arguments in relation to each of these.
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William Oram’s study of the dedicatory sonnets appended to the Faerie Queene gave scholars insight into the audiences Spenser sought. In our subsequent work to understand those audiences, one major problem remains: we still lack full bibliographic studies of the more than twenty surviving manuscripts of Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland, analyses that would establish dates, scribes, provenance, and contexts for each manuscript. A critical bibliography of the View’s manuscripts would tell us much about Spenser’s audiences both after his lifetime and perhaps during his final years as well.
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This essay discusses some difficulties of teaching Renaissance engagements with race, class, and gender in diverse twenty-first-century classrooms and looks to contemporary romance—science fiction and fantasy—for examples of humane and reparative pedagogy. Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist revisioning of her Earthsea trilogy in the late story “Dragonfly” both models the humility required to make change and stages a teaching practice that welcomes the disruptive and uncomfortable questions posed by a university’s first female student.
这篇文章讨论了在21世纪不同的教室里教授文艺复兴时期涉及种族、阶级和性别的课程的一些困难，并着眼于当代浪漫小说——科幻小说和幻想——寻找人道主义和修复性教学法的例子。厄休拉·k·勒奎恩(Ursula K. Le Guin)在后期的故事《蜻蜓》(Dragonfly)中对她的地海三部曲进行了女权主义的修订，既体现了做出改变所需的谦卑，又开展了一项教学实践，欢迎大学第一位女学生提出的破坏性和令人不安的问题。
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In a tone both playful and serious, this essay explores Sidney’s use of the term “toy” to describe the purpose, artfulness, and aesthetic force of his lyric poems through an extended discussion of the singing match between Lalus and Dorus in the First Eclogues and the double sestina of Strephon and Klaius. A careful consideration of the technical virtuosity of Sidney’s verse and its possible provenance leads to an argument for the lyric’s distinctive modes of evoking virtue and excellence.
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How should we read Daphnaïda—as Spenser’s worst poem or as covert advocacy on Spenser’s part for Arthur Gorges? In the light of such divergent recent approaches, this essay considers the poem through its formal choices and the ways in which such framing devices ironize and complicate its protagonist. It begins by rereading the monotonous quality of Alycon’s long lament, suggesting that Spenser uses devices that critically align Alcyon with poets of the previous age in the choice of a particular line shape. It then explores the ways in which this characterization draws on aspects of contemporary drama in the presentation of him as an affectively problematic figure—in this reading, metrical allusion to the drama contributes to the ironic characterization of the poem’s protagonist. The connection between Daphnaïda and contemporary poetry is enhanced by a detailed account of the way Alcyon’s complaint rewrites and “denatures” the famous contemporary sonnet “Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure” before turning to the poem’s complex bibliographical relationship with the Complaints volume. Finally, analysis of the stanza reveals it as denatured rhyme royal, designed to frustrate the eloquent tonalities of the original form.
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This essay calls for a fresh look at Spenser’s relationship to Petrarch—one that moves past a reliance on commonplace notions of “Petrarchism” to consider what exactly the English poet may have learned from his Italian predecessor. It thus explores what it might mean to identify Spenser as “post-Petrarchan”: to love and rival Vergil, to engage in intense literary self-reflection and autobiographical self-presentation, to reach for an international, multilingual audience engaged in cross-cultural and transhistorical dialogue, and to transform the lyric from a relatively minor literary genre to one that sought epic amplitude.
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This article considers the influence of William Oram’s generous and welcoming qualities as a scholar both on his critical writings and on his key role in creating the intellectually stimulating and tight-knit international community of Spenser scholars that arose in the late twentieth century and that has continued thereafter. Oram’s decision as general editor of the important collection The Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser not to require rigorous uniformity from its contributors in their editorial efforts allowed readers to experience a beneficially varied and wide-ranging set of approaches to Spenser’s shorter works. His welcoming spirit, in turn, led him to craft introductions for the collection carefully designed to be useful to experienced scholars and to those new to Spenser’s poems alike. Oram’s generosity and welcoming nature were also key to the creation of the intellectually invigorating and long-lasting community of Spenserians that arose in the wake of the establishment in 1976 of the Spenser sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies. Oram’s untiring work as an organizer of, participant in, and keen respondent to numerous Spenser sessions there and at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in particular has helped to encourage over four decades of remarkably thoughtful, passionate, and groundbreaking work on Spenser and all his writings.
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The best-known of Donne’s poems of “Valediction” is a lyric whose analogies of gold and a compass have long been considered touchstones for the so-called metaphysical style. Reading the poem, I have realigned these analogies with the Renaissance practice of making the invisible visible through analogy. In particular, the compass results from a poetic process that is simultaneously intellectual, material, and affective. Its polyphony is amazingly attuned to the multiple pressures and possibilities of Donne’s culture.
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Attempts to identify figures in The Faerie Queene with men and women in Elizabeth’s court have proved problematic. In his work on Timias and Belphoebe as figures for Ralegh and the queen, William Oram provides a model in which Spenser explores psychological, moral, or political issues that interested him by fragmenting historical persons into more than one character. This article explores such fragmentation of Elizabeth into Britomart, Florimell, and her evil twin, the Snowy Florimell, extending Oram’s work on Timias to include Leicester, Hatton, and Essex. In the tournaments of Satyrane and Marinell, Spenser’s allegory explores the dangers of arousing and frustrating erotic desire, arguing that Elizabeth’s use of courtly and Petrarchan love as a way to enjoy intimacy without sex led to betrayal and danger to the state.
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