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Spenser and War

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War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe

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It has long been a puzzle that Milton should at once claim Spenser as his original, and despise the entire argument of chivalric epic.1 How could he consider Spenser ‘a better teacher than Aquinas’, and yet be passionate in rejecting what seems a very large part of the content of Spenser’s masterpiece? For Milton goes out of his way to make clear that he is

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  1. Alastair Fowler
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  1. Graduate School of Renaissance Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    J. R. Mulryne (Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Chairman) & Margaret Shewring (Lecturer in Theatre Studies and Course Director) (Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Chairman) &  (Lecturer in Theatre Studies and Course Director)

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© 1989 J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring

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Fowler, A. (1989). Spenser and War. In: Mulryne, J.R., Shewring, M. (eds) War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19734-7_8

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