Toadstool poetics: alliteration in The Faerie Queene
If, in <i>The Shepheardes Calender</i>, Colin Clout’s evocation of the “formall rowmes” of the honeycomb suggests Spenser’s pursuit of a rational, classical poetics, then what are we to make of their displacement by “the grieslie Todestoole growne”? This article proposes that Spenser’s u...
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University of Chicago Press
2022
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