...Richard Rambuss Duke University Press 2000 6084 boundary 2 27:2 / sheet 53 of 227 Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival...

... . Fletcher Angus . 1964 . Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Fletcher Angus . 1971 . The Prophetic Moment: An Essay on Spenser . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Fletcher Angus . 1972 . The Transcendental Masque: An Essay...

... director of the graduate program in English. He is author of Closet Devotions and Spenser’s Secret Career. Along with his work on Renaissance literature and culture, he has also written on film. His current project is called ‘‘Kubrick’s...

.../epc/authors/ duplessis. Angus Fletcher is distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative litera- ture at CUNY Graduate School. Author of books on allegory, Spenser, and Milton, he edited The Literature of Fact for the English Institute. Harvard University Press has published his...

... immersion. One could hardly imagine an English author more addicted to the medieval allegory of ideas than Edmund Spenser, and yet he conveys a strong sense of current politi- cal events and a general historicity colliding with archaic myth (the carrier wave of universals), as if to ensure that the epic...

... had been recommended before—by Edmund Spenser, for instance, in 1596 in his View of the Present State of Ireland. It might seem on the face of it less surprising coming from a courtier like Spenser than from a republi- can like Harrington. Yet in the republican vision of a Protestant English...

... and irrelevant? Is this switching of judgmental lenses perhaps a skill that, though it has no name, students of Homer and Spenser and the Bible are already silently trained to exercise? On the other hand, if students were already well trained in it, would they currently be using the term genocide...

... a Letter to Robert Duncan” is written as some kind of coral echo-chamber “response” and “correspondence” to various poetry lines and images from Robert Duncan, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Philip Sydney, Jesus, Saint Paul, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Denise Levertov, and Jack Kerouac. As Brown...

...: Talbot Press, n.d 17, on Mab, Queen Maeve, and Spenser’s Fairy Queen. Queen Mab was also the subject of poems by Shelley and Thomas Hood, and of a painting by J. M. W. Turner. 34 boundary 2 / Spring 2004 When Huntly spots from a secure hiding place the last surviving Indian of the party, he...

... signals its participation in what one might call an achieved tradition. It borrows from, and works within the parameters set by, accomplished precursors. And just as Elizabethan poets such as Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare perfected a form—the sonnet—originally pioneered by Henrician antecedents...

... for anything resembling the figure of the oceanic sublime that forms such a strong current in English literature during the age of oceanic exploration and world conquest, in Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Byron, Cole- ridge, and beyond.19 The ‘‘absence’’ of sublime poetry on the ocean is often...

... precisely where the new book begins: with the problem of finding stability in flux, an issue he illustrates in both works with reference to Spenser s Mutabilitie Cantos and Marvell s To His Coy Mis- tress. How is the turbulence of life and its understanding to be kept smooth enough to be tolerable...

... ‘‘alarmists by trade but rather, we imagine, what Spenser calls ‘‘a gentle Husher, Vanity by name If he does not excite apprehension, by pointing out danger and difficulties where they do not exist, neither...

... suggests that the Irish literary tradition is mere prologue to the English one that emerges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with Edmund Spenser, John Toland, Francis Hutcheson, Swift, and Burke. Earlier national surveys such as Frank O’Connor’s The Backward Look (1967) and, to a lesser...