Spenser's Colin Clout : an introductory study

Title: Spenser's Colin Clout : an introductory study
Creator: Brown, Molly Anne
Subject: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation
Subject: Faerie Queene
Subject: English poetry
Subject: Epic
Subject: Criticism
Subject: Interpretation
Subject: Clout, Colin (Fictitious character)
Date Issued: 1985
Date: 1985
Type: text
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2180
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001831
Description: From introduction: In the sixth book of The Faerie Qveene, the reader is presented with a vision of the Graces and their attendants dancing on Mount Acidale to the piping of a simple shepherd. Spenser identifies this favoured musician as Colin Clout and then goes on to pose a seemingly inconsequential rhetorical question. "Who knowes not Colin Cloute?” he asks. The note of confident pride which can be discerned in the query clearly reveals Spenser's peculiar interest in one of his most intriguing creations. It is almost impossible to read a representative selection of Spenser's poetical works without noticing the hauntingly frequent appearances of his "Southerne shepheardes boye". Colin appears or is named in no fewer than six of Spenser's poems.
Format: 167 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, English
Language: English
Rights: Brown, Molly Anne

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