ENGLISH 3R06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Double Entendre, Fairy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3R06
• Professor: Professor Silcox

Document Summary

To help him finish his large poem of love and battles. Cleo is the muse that helps epic/ historical poets. Spenser is asking for help from gods and goddesses. Ex) if asking for apollo-> he is god of poets/ writers/ lights. He uses the gods in a way to foreshadow (not on purpose) They thought highly of poetry of praise (only if they deserved it)-> if done properly. This was a way for him to show and ask for praise on his poetry-> raises it up so it becomes more divine and glorious (cid:498)type(cid:499)-> means a shadow, a poor quality of a representation, they come before the. Glorianna is the (cid:498)type(cid:499) as she is a version of queen elizabeth. This shows the relationship of him as the writer and her as the ruler of the country he lives in real thing, and can never be as good as the real thing be active readers.