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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Michael Drayton"”.
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… by way of four case studies: Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, William Davenant, and John Milton. The second chapter looks at Spenser’s Faerie Queene. I argue that Spenser was influenced by Tasso’s arguments regarding the importance of discord as a key aspect of epic form, which informs his …
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"My dere chylde take hede how Trystram doo you tell": Hunting in English Literature, 1486-1603
… trope. I examine how Sir Thomas Wyatt, Michael Drayton, and Edmund Spenser enrich the metaphor with language and procedures from the actual practice of the hunt. With this addition, the poets are able to turn what seems like a failed hunt to their advantage, using their knowledge of the …