Spenser's Irish work : poetry, plantation and colonial reformation

Spenser's Irish work : poetry, plantation and colonial reformation / Thomas Herron.

Author/creator	Herron, Thomas, 1968-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Description	x, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Knowledge. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Homes and haunts --Ireland. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Contemporaries. Epic poetry, English--History and criticism. English poetry--Irish influences. British--Ireland --History --16th century. Colonies in literature. Ireland--History --1558-1603. Ireland--In literature.

Contents	Spenser and the anxious critics -- Spenser's plantation life -- Planting reformation in Ireland : Walshe, Smith, Robinson, and Bryskett -- Spenser's heroic legacy in Munster verse : Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane -- Elemental violence and the Virgilian ladder -- Flourishing monarchs : Virgil's Georgics, Gavin Douglas, and the proem to The faerie queene -- Plain thinking and civic celebration in Book I -- Imperial coda : Elizabethan progress and The Mutabilitie cantos -- Pagan hound : Cúchulainn, the Souldan, and the Spanish Armada in Book V -- Taming Raleigh's beast : monastic dissolution and local politics in Book VI.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
LCCN	2006017125
ISBN	0754656020 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780754656029 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR2367.I6 H47 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold