Usually I do not charge against academic scholars. Ignoring them is the best
punishment. But this Cambridge University Press work is so shameful
with Elizabethan History and truth with regard to Edmund Spenser and his
greatest poem (The
Faerie Queene)
that I could not resist my indignation. Here it is my review of the
work I published in Amazon:
These
University scholars do not deal with the Spenserʼs
Authorship Problem (cf. Conyers Readʼs
review of the 1946 Judsonʼs
The
Life of Edmund Spenser),
do not deal with Britomart being told the future of her dynasty, nor
her love with Arthegall in Book IV, Canto 6, that will be told by the
author of The
Faerie Queene
in Book V, Canto 7, stanzas 1-23 as having caused her pregnancy, nor
Britomartʼs (Glorianaʼs,
Elizabeth Iʼs)
“Lordly brood,” Tudor heirs, nor talk about Tristram as that rare
child whose crown has been stolen in Book VI, Canto 2. All we are
offered here is a shamefully formal void. No politics in the poem. All
empty words. Well, excuse me: You go and read Sex
& Fun in The Faerie Queene
(2019) to know what the poem is all about. At least, in this work,
the Harvey-Nashe Quarrel about Spenser and Marlowe is dealt with,
together with the politics of the poem. Do not buy this shamefully
academic work if you want to be told what Spenser and The
Faerie Queene
is all about. The Royal Succession! I bought it and ordered a refund.
This work cannot be more insulting to a reasoning and educated mind.
The
Faerie Queene
is a great poem but if you deal with it as if it were pure symbolism
you damage its value and its worth. Shame on you, scholars who
accept to ignore the very clear words addressed to Britomart-Elizabeth I and her
offspring on Book V, Canto 7, stanzas 1-23, as well as the void in
the Spenserʼs
biography. And to the Cambridge University Press: let me remind you that Charles Darwin studied in your institution. If you forget that, you deserve what you publish: shame.
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