Author | : William Clarence Johnson |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838751640 |
This work analyzes Spenser's setting of the entire Amoretti courtship against a backdrop of sacred time and his efforts to demonstrate the interpenetration of the divine and the human. The eighty-nine sonnets are shown to be sequential in their complex pattern of balanced themes, structural frameworks, developing images, and clusters of etymological wordplay.