Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘Subject unto chaunge’: Spenser's Complaints and the New Poetry
- PART ONE THE TRANSLATIONS
- PART TWO THE MAJOR COMPLAINTS
- Chapter Three: A ‘goodlie bridge’ between the Old and the New: the Transformation of Complaint in The Ruines of Time
- Chapter Four: Poetry's ‘liuing tongue’ in The Teares of the Muses
- Chapter Five: Cracking the Nut? Mother Hubberds Tale's Attack on Traditional Notions of Poetic Value
- Chapter Six: ‘Excellent device and wondrous slight’: Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics
- Chapter Seven: ‘And leave this lamentable plaint behinde’: the New Poetry beyond the Complaints
- Appendix: Urania-Astraea and ‘Divine Elisa’ in The Teares of the Muses (ll. 527–88)
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Six: ‘Excellent device and wondrous slight’: Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics
from PART TWO - THE MAJOR COMPLAINTS
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘Subject unto chaunge’: Spenser's Complaints and the New Poetry
- PART ONE THE TRANSLATIONS
- PART TWO THE MAJOR COMPLAINTS
- Chapter Three: A ‘goodlie bridge’ between the Old and the New: the Transformation of Complaint in The Ruines of Time
- Chapter Four: Poetry's ‘liuing tongue’ in The Teares of the Muses
- Chapter Five: Cracking the Nut? Mother Hubberds Tale's Attack on Traditional Notions of Poetic Value
- Chapter Six: ‘Excellent device and wondrous slight’: Muiopotmos and Complaints' Poetics
- Chapter Seven: ‘And leave this lamentable plaint behinde’: the New Poetry beyond the Complaints
- Appendix: Urania-Astraea and ‘Divine Elisa’ in The Teares of the Muses (ll. 527–88)
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The New PoetNovelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints, pp. 213 - 254Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999