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Spencer's World of Glass: A Reading of *The Faerie Queene presents Kathleen Williams’s luminous reappraisal of Spenser as not merely a painter of sumptuous scenes but a rigorous maker of worlds. Refusing the tired cliché that Spenser’s epic is “a poem that nobody reads,” Williams shows how its apparent luxuriance serves a profoundly architectonic purpose: the poem generates its own coherent universe, where romance wandering and moral design interlock. Knights such as Red Crosse, Guyon, and Britomart are not walking abstractions but experiential agents whose quests model the mind’s labor to wrest meaning from a resistant world. At the center of Williams’s argument is Spenser’s fusion of romance narrative with an allegorical method that orders rather than flattens lived experience. Allegory here is no pageant of personifications; it is a structural principle that binds episodes, images, and “virtues” into an intelligible cosmos―what Williams, following Spenser, evokes as a “world of glass,” round, reflective, and exacting. The poem’s “mighty maze” is “not without a plan”: its digressions are dramatizations of human perplexity; its resolutions disclose a lawfulness felt before it is understood. Williams traces how Spenser’s epic “makes” nature by compressing and clarifying significances across psychological, ethical, political, and cosmic registers. The virtues organize books as points of view rather than labels, converging toward magnificence, Gloriana’s court, and Nature’s ordinance. Throughout, Williams’s readings are alert to texture and structure alike, revealing how Spenser’s ease is the mark of controlled power and how the poem’s generosity of detail is the condition of its truth. A model of analytic poise and critical tact, this study restores The Faerie Queene as a living, intelligible whole―an artful imitation of life in which order emerges from bewilderment and the glassy world clarifies the one we inhabit. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

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Brand: University of California Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520358945
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 May 2022
Listed Since: 29 March 2022

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