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Author Quitslund, Jon A.

Title Spenser's supreme fiction : Platonic natural philosophy and the faerie queene / Jon A. Quitslund.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Maker's Mind -- Author in 1580 and 1590 -- Subject of Gender -- Poet's Career in 1580 and 1590 -- Dialogical Relations between Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser -- World and the Book -- Nature and Myth -- 'The whole circle or compasse of Learning' -- Poem as Heterocosm -- 'Deepe within the mynd' -- Poet as Magus and Viator -- Isomorphism of the Soul and the World -- Socratic and Esoteric Humanism -- Poetic and Philosophical Discourses -- Spenser's Poetry and Ficinian Platonism -- Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid -- Organic Soul or Spiritus -- Landino's Commentary on the Aeneid -- English Protestant Responses to Platonic Natural Philosophy -- 'Within This Wide Great Vniuerse' -- Nature in The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Phenomena -- Hierarchical and Dynamic Principles -- Night and Day; Destiny, Necessity, Providence -- Fate and Fortune -- Strife and Love -- Four Elements -- Sprights and Spirits -- Decay -- Reading the Garden of Adonis Canto -- Sources of the Source -- Reading the Garden as a Woman -- Courtly and Erudite Trattati d'Amore -- Formal Symmetries in the Garden Canto -- Ontological Status of the Garden -- Gender Roles and Family Life in the Garden -- 'In the thickest couert of that shade' -- Work of Mourning -- Platonic Program of the Garden Canto -- Leone Ebreo's Exposition of Two Myths in The Symposium -- Louis Le Roy's Le Sympose de Platon -- Marsilio Ficino's De Amore -- Aristophanes' Myth and the Daughters of Chrysogone.
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Subject Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Plato -- Influence.
Plato.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Plato.
Platon.
Spenser, Edmund.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Platon -- Influence.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Et Platon.
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Spenser, Edmund. Faerie queene.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Quitslund, Jon A. Spenser's supreme fiction. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802035059 (DLC) 2002511088 (OCoLC)47200625
ISBN 9781442680111 (electronic book)
1442680113 (electronic book)
0802035051 (bound)
9780802035059