Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays

by Frank Kermode

First published in 1971.

This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history.

Contents Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene , I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience of Shakespeare; Survival fo the Classic; Shakespeare's Learning; The Mature Comedies; The Final Plays.

Genres: Poetry, Renaissance

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Sir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 (revised 2003).