The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser

Author: Edmund Spenser

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 9780300042450

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The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Amoretti
Amoretti

Author: Edmunde Spenser

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021097163

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This is a collection of sonnets written by the legendary poet Edmund Spenser. The sonnets are a tribute to the poet's love for a woman named Elizabeth Boyle. They are written in a traditional Elizabethan style and are known for their beauty and romanticism. This book is a must-have for students of English literature and lovers of poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Edmund Spenser in Context
Edmund Spenser in Context

Author: Andrew Escobedo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 1316869873

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Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic language and his allegorical mode of writing can become barriers to understanding his poetry. This volume of thirty-seven essays, written by distinguished scholars, offers a rich introduction to the literary, political and religious contexts that shaped Spenser's poetry, including the environment in which he lived, the genres he drew upon, and the influences that helped to fashion his art. The collection reveals the multiple personae that Spenser constructs within his work: to read Spenser is to read a rich archive of literary forms, and this volume provides the contexts in which to do so. A reading list at the end of the volume will prove invaluable to further study.

Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser

Author: G. Waller

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1994-10-05

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0230373364

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Gary Waller surveys Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of its production - the often overlooked material factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the resonant 'places' which influenced his career - court, church, nation, colony. The book includes an original account of the gender politics of Spenser's work and his difficult position between Ireland and England, the 'homes' about which he held ambivalent feelings. Waller also discusses the 'place' the biographer occupies in writing a literary life.

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

Author: Arthur F. Kinney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-02

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1139825704

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This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.

Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser

Author: Colin Burrow

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0746307500

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Edmund Spenser (?1554-99) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calender (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-6) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. In his approachable and informative study, Colin Burrow clarifies the genres and conventions at work in Spenser's poem. He explores the poet's taste for archaism and allegory, and the nature of epic and of heroism in The Faerie Queene. He presents Spenser as a 'Renaissance' poet who is drawn at once to images of vital rebirth and of mortal frailty. In clear, jargon-free prose he examines Spenser's equivocal relationship with his Queen and with the Irish landscape in which he spent his mature years. Spenser emerges from this book a less orthodox and harmonious poet than he is often thought to be, but as a complex, thoughtful, and attractive writer.