ENGLISH 3R06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Fairy, Courtly Love, Spenserian Stanza

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

Document Summary

We try to use every day language in our writing now. The action of epic usually consists of deeds of valour, war, requires huge courage on the part of the hero. They used a special elevated style-> they wanted the sense of the incredible to encompass it as a whole. The invocation of the muses (calling on them) (in this case to help) Goddesses of the arts and proclaimers of heroes. It is name dropping of the goddesses-> what you are doing is big and important, you need help to write an epic because it is so important. He wanted to show his nationalism to queen elizabeth. The faerie queen is not purely classic epic. Right in the centre of the main part of the story. They are more interested in plot development and not character development. It allows for more climactic action as opposed to the rising tension.