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The private lives of trees and flowers
pp. 117-139
Abstract
A mere handful of stanzas into Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Redcrosse Knight, Una, and the dwarf that lags behind them enter a "shadie groue ... Whose lof tie trees yclad with sommers pride, / Did spred so broad, that heauens light did hide."1 What imme- diately follows is the first epic catalogue of the poem, with its striking meditation on trees:
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Published in:
Cefalu Paul, Kuchar Gary, Reynolds Bryan (2014) The return of theory in early modern English studies II. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 117-139
Full citation:
Trevor Douglas (2014) „The private lives of trees and flowers“, In: P. Cefalu, G. Kuchar & B. Reynolds (eds.), The return of theory in early modern English studies II, Dordrecht, Springer, 117–139.