The Cambridge Companion to SpenserAndrew Hadfield The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser. |
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... Spenser , Edmund , 1552 ? -1599 - Handbooks , manuals , etc. I. Title : Companion to Spenser . II . Hadfield , Andrew . III . Series . PR2364.C36 2001 821'.3 - dc21 00-065084 ISBN 0 521 64199 3 hardback ISBN 0 521 64570 o paperback For ...
... Spenser , Edmund , 1552 ? -1599 - Handbooks , manuals , etc. I. Title : Companion to Spenser . II . Hadfield , Andrew . III . Series . PR2364.C36 2001 821'.3 - dc21 00-065084 ISBN 0 521 64199 3 hardback ISBN 0 521 64570 o paperback For ...
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... Edmund Spenser ANDREW HADFIELD I Spenser's life and career RICHARD RAMBUSS 2 Historical contexts : Britain and Europe DAVID J. BAKER 3 Ireland : policy , poetics and parody RICHARD A. MCCABE 4 Spenser's pastorals : The Shepheardes ...
... Edmund Spenser ANDREW HADFIELD I Spenser's life and career RICHARD RAMBUSS 2 Historical contexts : Britain and Europe DAVID J. BAKER 3 Ireland : policy , poetics and parody RICHARD A. MCCABE 4 Spenser's pastorals : The Shepheardes ...
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... Spenser : The Critical Heritage ( New York : Barnes and Noble , 1971 ) English Literary History English Literary Renaissance English Studies in Canada The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene , ed . A. C. Hamilton ( London ...
... Spenser : The Critical Heritage ( New York : Barnes and Noble , 1971 ) English Literary History English Literary Renaissance English Studies in Canada The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene , ed . A. C. Hamilton ( London ...
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... Edmund Spenser , ed . Edwin Greenlaw et al . , Variorum Edition , II vols . ( Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1932-58 ) Edmund Spenser , A View of the Present State of Ireland , ed . W. L. Renwick ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1970 ) ...
... Edmund Spenser , ed . Edwin Greenlaw et al . , Variorum Edition , II vols . ( Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1932-58 ) Edmund Spenser , A View of the Present State of Ireland , ed . W. L. Renwick ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1970 ) ...
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... in Westminster Abbey . Publication of A View of the State of Ireland , ed . by James Ware as part of a volume of Ancient Irish Chronicles . ANDREW HADFIELD Introduction : the relevance of Edmund Spenser While XX CHRONOLOGY.
... in Westminster Abbey . Publication of A View of the State of Ireland , ed . by James Ware as part of a volume of Ancient Irish Chronicles . ANDREW HADFIELD Introduction : the relevance of Edmund Spenser While XX CHRONOLOGY.
Contents
Spensers life and career | 13 |
Historical contexts Britain and Europe | 37 |
Ireland policy poetics and parody | 60 |
Spensers Pastorals The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe | 79 |
The Faerie Queene Books IIII | 106 |
The Faerie Queene Books IVVII | 124 |
Spensers shorter poems | 143 |
Spensers languages writing in the ruins of English | 162 |
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