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Poetry of the Faerie Queene

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Full Title:

Poetry of the Faerie Queene

Contributors:

By (Author) Paul J. Alpers

ISBN:

9780691622866

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

15th February 2016

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: poetry and poets

Dewey:

821.3

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

426

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

567g

Description

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

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