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Edmund Spenserâs <i>Faerie Queene</i> and John Donneâs âSatyre 4â are related in several ways; both works critique the vices of the Elizabethan court, both feature a putatively virtuous individualâs morally compromising sojourn at court, both explicitly address the didactic function of poetry, and bothâaccording to Joseph Wybarneâs <i>The New Age of Old Names</i> (1609)âportray the Antichrist in terms that evoke Roman Catholic polemical writing. These points of intertextual correspondence invite a reading of Donneâs âSatyre 4â that explores the images, narrative details, and thematic emphases shared by Donneâs poem and specific episodes in Spenserâs allegory: Redcrosseâs battle with Errour and his visit to the House of Pride in book 1 and the defeat of Malengin in book 5. Wybarneâs commentary, which links Spenserâs and Donneâs works to the writings of the Counter-Reformation polemicist Fr. Nicholas Sander, helps to establish an early seventeenth-century readerâs perspective on these textsâ relationships to one another and facilitates new insights into Donneâs satirical agenda.
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 23, 2015
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