埃德蒙·斯宾塞的《终结感

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J. Russell
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在他的《仙后》中,埃德蒙·斯宾塞把自己描绘成一个“诗人魔法师”,他可以透过自然的面纱,发现道德和政治美德的“秘密教导”,并将其传授给读者。因此,他的读者的任务是通过在伊丽莎白统治下建立一个帝国来改革这个堕落的世界。然而,在《易变性的两章》中,斯宾塞似乎放弃了这一愿景。的确,《可变性》在某种程度上反映了斯宾塞自己的野心。可变性对(暂时的)存在的脆弱性和可变性的主张在《仙后》中得到了预示,但在《两章》中,它们占据了中心舞台。斯宾塞对自然战胜可变性的描述为他自己提供了一个教训,他似乎拒绝了他对知识的夸夸其谈,也拒绝了他在上帝面前谦卑恳求的帝国愿景,在《仙后》中,上帝的天意是最强大的力量。
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Edmund Spenser’s Sense of an Ending
Throughout his Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser depicts himself as a “poet magus” who can peer behind the veil of Nature in order to discover a “secret teaching” of ethical and political virtue that he will impart to his readers. His readers are thus tasked with the chore of reforming the fallen world through the creation of an empire under Elizabeth. However, in “The Two Cantos of Mutabilitie,” Spenser seems to relinquish this vision. Indeed, Mutabilitie, on one level serves as a mirroring figure of Spenser’s own ambitions. Mutabilitie’s claims for the fragility and mutability of (temporal) existence are prefigured throughout The Faerie Queene, but in “The Two Cantos,” they take center stage. Spenser’s depiction of Nature’s triumph over Mutabilitie provides a lesson for Spenser himself, and he appears to reject his bombastic claims of knowledge as well as his projected imperial vision for a position of humble supplication before God, whose Providence is the ultimately the most powerful force in The Faerie Queene.
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Explorations in Renaissance Culture
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