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The private lives of trees and flowers

Douglas Trevor

pp. 117-139

A mere handful of stanzas into Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Redcrosse Knight, Una, and the dwarf that lags behind them enter a "shadie groue ... Whose lof tie trees yclad with sommers pride, / Did spred so broad, that heauens light did hide."1 What imme- diately follows is the first epic catalogue of the poem, with its striking meditation on trees:

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Trevor, D. (2014)., The private lives of trees and flowers, in P. Cefalu, G. Kuchar & B. Reynolds (eds.), The return of theory in early modern English studies II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 117-139.

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