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Poetry of the Faerie Queene
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Poetry of the Faerie Queene
Contributors:
By (Author) Paul J. Alpers
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Dewey:
821.3
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
426
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
765g
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
