Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete

Rereading Chaucer And Spenser Is A Much-needed Volume That Brings Together Established And Early Career Scholars To Provide New Critical Approaches To The Relationship Between Geoffrey Chaucer And Edmund Spenser. By Reading One Of The Greatest Poets Of The Middle Ages Alongside One Of The Greatest Poets Of The English Renaissance, This Collection Poses Questions About Poetic Authority, Influence, And The Nature Of Intertextual Relations In A More Wide-ranging Manner Than Ever Before. With Its Dual Focus On Authors From Periods Often Conceived As Radically Separate, The Collection Also Responds To Current Interests In Periodisation. This Approach Will Engage Academics, Researchers And Students Of Medieval And Early Modern Culture. 1. Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde In Spenser's Amoretti And The Faerie Queene: Reading Historically And Intertextually / Judith H. Anderson -- 2. 'litle Herd Gromes Piping In The Wind': The Shepheardes Calender, The House Of Fame And `la Compleynt' / Helen Barr -- 3. Diverse Pageants: Normative Arrays Of Sexuality / Helen Cooper -- 4. The Source Of Poetry: Pernaso, Paradise And Spenser's Chaucerian Craft / Claire J.c. Eager -- 5. Chaucer In Ireland: Archaism, Etymology And The Idea Of Development / William Rhodes -- 6. Wise Wights In Privy Places: Rhyme And Stanza Form In Spenser And Chaucer / Richard Danson Brown -- 7. Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer And Romance In The Manuscript Tradition / Gareth Griffith -- 8. Cultivating Chaucerian Antiquity In The Shepheardes Calender / Megan L. Cook -- 9. Worthy Friends: Speght's Chaucer And Speght's Spenser / Elisabeth Chaghafi -- 10. Chaucer's `beast Group' And `mother Hubberds Tale' / Brendan O'connell -- 11. Propagating Authority: Poetic Tradition In The Parliament Of Fowls And The Mutabilitie Cantos / Craig A. Berry -- 12. `new Matter Framed Upon The Old': Chaucer, Spenser And Luke Shepherd's `new Poet' / Harriet Archer. Edited By Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe And Gareth Griffith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.