The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes
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About This Book
In this study of Edmund Spenser's 1579 poem The Shepheardes Calender, Robert Lane uncovers hidden dimensions of Spenser's earliest important work by embedding it in the historical context of Queen Elizabeth's reign and showing how thoroughly it engages the fundamentally sociopolitical issues that confronted English society of the time.Rejecting earlier formalist and new historicist readings that viewed Elizabethan culture as fundamentally aristocratic, Lane reveals this poem's thoroughgoing identification with the nonelite of Spenser's society. By including such popular forms as fables, prover...
Chapters (13)
- THE SHEPHEARD'S CALENDER:
- JANUARIE · AEGLOGA PRIMA
- FEBRUARIE · AEGLOGA SECUNDA
- MARCH · AEGLOGA TERTIA
- APRIL · AEGLOGA QUARTA
- MAY · AEGLOGA QUINTA
- JUNE · AEGLOGA SEXTA
- JULY · AEGLOGA SEPTIMA
- AUGUST · AEGLOGA OCTAVA
- SEPTEMBER · AEGLOGA NONA
- OCTOBER · AEGLOGA DECIMA
- NOVEMBER · AEGLOGA UNDECIMA
- DECEMBER · AEGLOGA DUODECIMA
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