Resisting AllegorySpenser is a delirious poet. He cant plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier, than anything dreamed up or put down by M. C. Escher. So begins Resisting Allegory, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Spensers great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practicesthose the author