Author : B. Danner
Release : 2011-09-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 671/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley by : B. Danner
Download or read book Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley written by B. Danner. This book was released on 2011-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser's censored attacks on Lord Burghley (Elizabeth I's powerful first minister) serve as the basis for a reassessment of the poet's mid-career, challenging the dates of canonical texts, the social and personal contexts for scandalous topical allegories, and the new historicist portrait of Spenser's 'worship' of power and state ideology.