Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics - Harry Berger - Paperback - REPRINT

"What critic of Spenser's poetry does not know, and acknowledge, a debt to Harry Berger? The collection, at last, of these seminal essays into a single volume is welcome news indeed for the generation of scholars who learned from them and can now more easily send their own students to them. . . . Their importance as documents of the discovery of Spenser, and the Spenserian mode, in the 1960s is given new prominence, moreover, by Berger's recent essays here on the 'metapastoralism' ofThe Shepheardes Calendar. In them, this New Critic comes home again to Spenser, recognizing the value of recent critical trends but arguing passionately for the centrality of the close reading of text. The result is a powerful case for reconciliation and consolidation of methods that have dominated literary study over the second half of this century."--Donald Cheney, co-editor ofThe Spenser EncyclopediaBerger, Harry, Jr. is the author of 'Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics - Harry Berger - Paperback - REPRINT' with ISBN 9780520071803 and ISBN 0520071808.