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Antiquities of Britain: Spenser’s Ruines of Time by Hassan Melehy N The Ruines of Time, the poem that opens his Complaints (1591), Spenser offers reflections on the evanescent nature of all worldly I things, death, and the creation of new life that may be found in poetry. Indeed, The Ruines of Time presents a poetics that Spenser de- velops and follows throughout the Complaints, and no less than a mani- festo for a renewed English poetry, founded on the ruins of the past, a new life springing forth on the funeral monuments of the dead. In this respect, Spenser engages in a productive imitation of one of his major French predecessors, Joachim du Bellay, whose sonnet sequences the Antiquitez de Rome and Songe (published together in 1558) he presents as translations toward the end of the Complaints under the respective titles Ruines of Rome: by Bellay and Visions of Bellay. As I will show here, The Ruines of Time is marked by frequent allusion to and reworking of these sequences. And in a broader perspective, Spenser borrows notions of imitation from Du Bellay’s Deffence et Illustration de la Langue Francoyse (1549), a text with which he was likely familiar
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 4, 2005
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