Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

A posthumous collection of fourteen scholarly essays, edited with a preface by Walter Hooper and published by Cambridge University Press in 1966. It opens with 'De Audiendis Poetis', on how medieval poetry should be heard, 'The Genesis of a Medieval Book' and 'Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages'. Three essays on Dante follow: his similes, the imagery of the last eleven cantos of the Comedy, and Dante's Statius. There are essays on Malory's Morte Darthur and on Tasso, and five on Spenser: a general essay, 'On Reading The Faerie Queene', 'Neoplatonism in the Poetry of Spenser', 'Spenser's Cruel Cupid' and 'Genius and Genius'. A note on Milton's Comus closes the book. The essays complement The Allegory of Love and The Discarded Image.