Spenser’s Images of Life

This 1967 book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as ‘the glad creator’, and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood. Edited by Alastair Fowler.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1979
Book Condition: Very good softcover with minor surface and edge wear to covers. Minor edge wear to top outer corner of pages. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.