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Poetry of the Faerie Queene
By (Author) Paul J. Alpers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.3
Paperback
426
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response. Individual episodes in the poem are considered by the author as developing psychological experience within the reader rather than as actions to be observed. Part I is an ex