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Introduction

Before surveying the book’s argument, the Introduction contextualizes Spenser’s Platonic interests in relation to current trends and debates in literary studies and in Spenser studies. It further considers the relevant aspects of early modern thought and culture, including Plato’s perceived importance for discursive pursuits of the sublime, his Elizabethan status, how Spenser likely encountered Platonism as a schoolboy taught by Richard Mulcaster, its currency in the poet’s circle in the 1570s, and which Platonic texts are most pertinent to him. The interaction of Platonic poetics with Elizabethan poetic practice transformed the creative horizons of English literature. While newly assessing this aspect of Spenser’s poesis, the book as a whole clarifies the development of early modern continental and English poetics, this writer’s poetics, his visionary aspirations, his major poems, and his authorial persona. Spenser had a foundational role in the English literary “line of vision” that includes John Milton and William Blake among others.

Oxford University Press

Kenneth Borris

Oxford Scholarship Online

2017

Title: Introduction

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Before surveying the book’s argument, the Introduction contextualizes Spenser’s Platonic interests in relation to current trends and debates in literary studies and in Spenser studies.

It further considers the relevant aspects of early modern thought and culture, including Plato’s perceived importance for discursive pursuits of the sublime, his Elizabethan status, how Spenser likely encountered Platonism as a schoolboy taught by Richard Mulcaster, its currency in the poet’s circle in the 1570s, and which Platonic texts are most pertinent to him.

The interaction of Platonic poetics with Elizabethan poetic practice transformed the creative horizons of English literature.

While newly assessing this aspect of Spenser’s poesis, the book as a whole clarifies the development of early modern continental and English poetics, this writer’s poetics, his visionary aspirations, his major poems, and his authorial persona.

Spenser had a foundational role in the English literary “line of vision” that includes John Milton and William Blake among others.

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