Outputs (2)

Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England (2010)
Journal Article
Lawrence, J. Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England. Renaissance Studies, 25(5), 648-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00697.x

This essay argues that the earliest English work to offer a sustained poetic engagement with the figure of Armida, the celebrated pagan enchantress from Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581), is Daniel’s The Complaint of Rosamond (1592). Unlike Spenser... Read More about Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England.

Spenser and Italian Literature (2010)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2010). Spenser and Italian Literature. In R. A. McCabe (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (602-619). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227365.013.0034

This article focuses on Spenser's relationship with Italian literature. Spenser's profound relationship with Italian literature is manifest from his earliest printed poetry, even if initially his engagement with it seems to have been mediated through... Read More about Spenser and Italian Literature.