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Part I(2): The Bondage of Rhyme in The Faerie Queene
Moderate ‘this Ornament of Rhyme’
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The general argument of this study is that Spenser weakens rhyme, and does so because of the problems it poses for narrative, and because he wishes to direct attention away from the manner of his writing to the subject of that writing, to what he is writing about: Spenser’s verse aspires to the condition of blank verse, Spenser’s language aspires to the condition of transparency. Each of these entails the weakening of rhyme, of which the massive repetition in various forms is one factor. After some general comments about rhyme, the author analyses some relevant practices of poets other and often later than Spenser, to gain some purchase by comparison and contrast, before coming to a detailed examination of the relevant aspects of Spenser’s rhyme. Lastly the author bruits some consequences of Spenser’s treatment of rhyme for his language and our reading of The Faerie Queene.

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