The Song of Songs in English renaissance literature : kisses of their mouths
Treatment of and reference to the Song of Songs by a variety of authors including Spenser and Milton.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
VIII, 173 p. 25 cm
9780859915861, 0859915867
1014891161
William Baldwin's "The Canticles, or Balades of Salomon" - the shaping of history, sexuality and subsequent English poetry; canticles, Baldwin and Spenser's "Amoretti"; canticles as erased convention in "Venus and Adonis"; the Spenserian canticles of Robert Aylett - the Protestant tradition continues; ranter sexual politics - canticles in the England of 1650; Adam's revisited rant with Eve; conclusion.