PHILOLOGY. ASIAN STUDIES. JOURNALISM.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | LITERATURE | ||
| Codes UDC | 821.111 | Page | 26-32 |
| Title | VITRUVIAN PRINCIPLES OF THE AESTHETICS OF COMPOSITION IN THE WORKS BY EDMUND SPENSER | ||
| Author 1 | Burova Irina I. | St. Petersburg State University 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation Doctor of Philology, Professor e-mail: irinaburova@hotmail.com |
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| Summary | The paper discusses the foundations of Edmund Spenser�s art of composition based on the ideas of symmetry, proportion and accentuation of the geometrical centre of the text. The poet�s ambition to turn his works into monuments to his age allows to suggest that Spenser might borrow these composition principles from �De Architectura� by Vitruvius. Having traced down their use through a number of Spenser�s individual poems (�The Ruines of Time�, �Colin Clouts Come Home Againe�, etc.) and books of collected poems (�Complaints�, �Amoretti and Epithalamion�), it is possible to conclude that the infl uence of Vitruvian aestheics upon Spenser was a steadfast one and facilitated his shift from Mannerism towards Neoclassicism. | ||
| Keywords | Edmund Spenser, Vitruvius, poetry and architecture, the art of composition, symmetry, proportion. | ||