Edmund Spenser and his Faerie Queen.ppt

Edmund Spenser and his The Faerie Queen Introduction ? Edmund Spenser(1552--1599) ? the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan era. ? poet's poet : 诗人的诗人? Amoretti 《小爱神》? The Shepheardes Calender 《牧人月历》? The Faerie Queen 《仙后》 Spenserian special ryhme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee. ? Shakespeare : abab cdcd efef gg ? the remarkably beautiful adaption of the Italian canzone forms for the Epithalamion (《婚曲》)and Prothalamion , and the nine- line stanza of The Faerie Queen , with its extraordinary six-foot line at the end. The Shepheardes Calender ? 13 different meters. ? some of these Spenser invented, some he adopted, but most of them were novel; only three or four were at mon in 1579. ? He was strongly influenced by Renaissance neoplatonism, but was also earthy and practical. ? He is a lover and celebrator of physical beauty , yet also a profound analyst of good and evil in all their perplexing shapes plexities. ? He was strongly influenced by Puritanism in his early days, remained a thoroughgoing Protestant all his life, and portrayed the Roman Catholic church as a villain in The Faerie Queene ; yet his understanding of faith and of sin owns much to Catholic thinkers. ? He is a poet of sensuous images yet also something of an iconoclast, deeply suspicious of the power of images to turn into idols. ? He is an idealist, yet also a celebrant of English nationalism, empire, and martial power. ? He paid homage to Chaucer, used archaic language The Faerie Queen ? Courtesy book : like Castiglione's Courtier , intend to "fashion a gentleman or noble person" by exhibiting the qualities such a person should have. ? The six books that pleted exhibit the virtues of Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice and Courtesy. A romantic epic. ? Like Ariosto ’s Orlando Furioso , full of adventures and marvels, dragons, witches, enchanted trees, giants, jousting knights, and castles. ? It fulfills