Overview
Rufus Wood contextualizes his study of The Faerie Queene through an initial discussion of attitudes towards metaphor expressed in Elizabethan poetry. He reveals how Elizabethan writers voice a commitment to metaphor as a means of discovering and exploring their world and shows how the concept of a metaphoric principle of structure underlying Elizabethan poetics generates an exciting interpretation of The Faerie Queene. The debate which emerges concerning the use and abuse of metaphor in allegorical poetry provides a valuable contribution to the field of Spenser studies in particular and Renaissance literature in general.
- | Author: Rufus Wood
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Aug 29, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 233 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0333613678
- | ISBN-13: 9780333613672
