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Squitter-wits and muse-haters : Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance antipoetic sentiment

This study offers an approach toward Renaissance literary production, demonstrating that antipoetic sentiment, previously dismissed as an unimportant aspect of Tudor-Stuart literary culture, constituted a significant "shaping presence" in Sidney, Spenser and Milton.
Print Book, English, ©1996
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780814325711, 0814325718
33898789
Introduction: The Problem of Poetry
1. The Antipoetics of Protestantism
2. When Is a Defense Not a Defense? Sidney's Paradoxical Apology for Poetry
3. Astrophil and Stella: Poetry, Politics, and Masculinity
4. "See the Boy with the Stagefright": Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender and the Problematics of Ambition
5. "To Forge True-Seeming Lyes": Bon and Mal Poetry in The Faerie Queene
6. "Advent'rous Song": Milton's Early Poetry and the Muse-haters