Spenser’s Pastoral Places
Helen Cooper
Originally a plenary lecture given at the 2015 Spenser Conference in Dublin on “Spenser’s Places/The Place of Spenser,” this article explores place pastoral tradition, encompassing as it does Virgil, Bible, and also various other versions that had emerged over course Middle Ages. constantly sets these rich strands inheritance dialectical opposition to each other, principally Shepheardes Calender but Faerie Queene; he associates different traditions with kinds places, landscapes, which set up their own dialectic.
Spenser studies