TY  - GEN
T1  - The early Spenser, 1554-80 'Minde on honour fixed'
T2  - The Manchester Spenser.
A1  - Brink, J. R.
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester, UK
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1155118682
AB  - Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell's Catechism and Dean of St. Paul's. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple. Contextualising Spenser's life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile.
OP  - 264
NO  - Available through ManchesterHive.
CN  - PR2364
SN  - 9781526142597
SN  - 1526142597
SN  - 9781526142603
SN  - 1526142600
SN  - 9781526142580
KW  - Spenser, Edmund, : 1552?-1599.
KW  - Spenser, Edmund, : 1552?-1599 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Spenser, Edmund, : 1552?-1599
KW  - English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century .
KW  - English literature : Early modern
KW  - 1500-1700
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -