Article published In: Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus 9] 1996
► pp. 121–134
Spenser's Submarine Creation
Published online: 31 December 1996
https://doi.org/10.1075/rein.9.10por
https://doi.org/10.1075/rein.9.10por
Abstract
Spenser's use of aquatic monsters in his imagery is perhaps influenced by observation, but surely also by his reading of Gessner's Historia Animalium (Zurich 1551-87). He uses images of sea monsters to expres a stage of emergent creation as yet incomplete and terrifying. These images can be linked vertically with images of the fish of the fertile waters and the fruitfulness of the lands they water, to suggest a universal harmony, in cosmological, psychological and even political terms.
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