Patronage, gentility, and “base degree”: Edmund Spenser and Lord Burghley
This essay examines the social asymmetry of Early Modern patronage by focussing on Edmund Spenser’s complex relationship with Lord Burghley. Both were anxious to validate their social credentials, the one as novus homo, and other as novus poeta. Burghley sought to offset criticism of his rise by con...
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Routledge
2017
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