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Article: Spenser's Forms of History.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Bart van Es. Spenser's Forms of History.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 236 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-19-923970-9.
In his graceful and important book, Bart van Es sets out to read Spenser historically. He explores how Spenser's writing both reflects and reflects upon history. Van Es draws impressively on historically-oriented Renaissance studies of the last twenty years or so while bringing to bear sensitive reading of Spenser's own work as the poet grapples with the various modes of understanding history available in Elizabethan England.
The book is divided into six chapters, each of which treats a significant ...