Spenser and Literary Pictorialism
- Author / Editor
- Bender, John B.
Spenser and Literary Pictorialism
- Published
- Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.
- Physical Description
- ix, 218 pp.
- Description
- Studies the "embodying [of] visual experience in poetic language," comparing Spenser's uses of various devices with those of other poets, Chaucer among them. Contrasts the "embellished and incrusted imagery" in Spenser's characterizations with Chaucer's relative disregard for coherent space, using the description of Alceste (LGWP F212-25) for analysis and commenting on its "iconographic representation of conceptual reality."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Style and Versification
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion