The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition

by Edmund Spenser, Edwin Greenlaw (Editor), Charles Grosvenor Osgood (Editor), Frederick Morgan Pedelford (Editor)

Overview

Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801869846
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	12/15/2001
Series:	Works of Edmund Spenser , #2
Edition description:	Variorum ed.
Pages:	529
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene.

Edwin Greenlaw was head of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University and the former dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Text
Commentary
Appendices:
I. The Date of Composition
II. Historical Allegory
III. Moral Allegory
IV. The Virtue of Temperance
V. Spense and Milton
VI. The Mortality Theme
VII. Sources
VIII. The Castle of the Body
IX. Elizabethan Psychology
X. The Structure
XI. The Twenty-Second Stanza of Canto 9
Textual Appendix
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Once more we are in debt to the great and gracious scholar who has done more than anyone in our century to expedite the study of Spenser's poetry.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

The usefulness of the compilation and the skill with which it has been put together will be remarked continually by scholars.

Times Literary Supplement

Once more we are in debt to the great and gracious scholar who has done more than anyone in our century to expedite the study of Spenser's poetry.
—Journal of English and Germanic Philology

The usefulness of the compilation and the skill with which it has been put together will be remarked continually by scholars.
—Times Literary Supplement

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