Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 24 - Contents: Introduction: Spenser and Platonism; Carol Kaske, Hallmarks of Platonism and the Sons of Agape (Faerie Queene IV. ii-iv); Valery Rees, Ficinian Ideas in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser; Eugene D. Hill, Everard Digby: A Syncretic Philosopher at Spenser's Cambridge; Anne Lake Prescott, Hills of Contemplation and Signifying Circles: Spenser and Guy Le Fevre de la Boderie; Andrew Escobedo, The Sincerity of Rapture; Kenneth Borris, Platonism and Spenser's Poetic: Idealized Imitation, Merlin's Mirror, and the Florimells; Catherine Gimelli Martin, Spenser's Neoplatonic Geography of the Passions: Mapping Allegory in the ""Legend of Temperance,"" Faerie Queene, Book II; Jon Quitslund, Melancholia, Mammon, and Magic; Kenneth Gross, Green Thoughts in a Green Shade; Ayesha Ramachandran, Edmund Spenser, Lucretian Neoplatonist: Cosmology in the Fowre Hymnes; Paul Suttie, The Lost Cause of Platonism in The Faerie Queene. Forum: The Relation of the Fowre Hymnes to The Faerie Queene: Richard McCabe, Spenser, Plato, and the Poetics of State; Kenneth Borris, Reassessing Ellrodt: Critias and the Fowre Hymnes in The Faerie Queene; Gordon Teskey, A Retrograde Reading of Spenser's Fowre Hymnes; Jon Quitslund, Thinking about Thinking in the Fowre Hymnes. Index.
