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Edmund
Spenser : A Literary Life
by Gary Waller
Hardcover
St Martins Press, December 1994
"Examining Spenser's career in terms
of the material
conditions of his poetry's production - factors of race,
gender, class, agency - and the 'places' of its production -
court, church, nation, colony - [Waller] also writes
movingly of the 'place' the biographer occupies in the
construction of a 'literary life'. The book includes chapters
on Spenser's poetry and career, including an original
account of the gender politics of his work and his difficult
position between Ireland and England, the 'homes' about
which he held increasingly painful feelings."
—The Publisher
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Works
of Edmund Spenser : Life of Edmund Spenser
by Edmund Spenser, Alexander C. Judson
Hardcover
Published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1945
A respected biography from the 1940's.
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Spenser's
Secret Career
by Richard Rambuss
Hardcover
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1993
"It argues that for Spenser, the manipulation
of secrets [as secretary to various people]
provided a strategy for self-promotion and a
means of measuring his distance from royal
and aristocratic power."
—CUP Catalog
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Spenser's
Life and the Subject of Biography
(Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
by Judith H. Anderson (Editor),
Donald Cheney (Editor),
David A. Richardson (Editor)
Hardcover
Univ. of Massachusetts Press, December 1996
"Challenging received tradition, nine essays
examine the history of Spenser biography
and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it,
with new sensitivity to problems of artistic
self-presentation." —BookNews, Inc.
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Works
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Edmund
Spenser's Poetry
by Edmund Spenser, Hugh MacLean, Anne Lake Prescott
Paperback
Published by W W Norton & Co, April 1, 1993
"[O]ffers more of Spenser’s poetry than any
other comparable volume.... All selections
are based on early and established texts,
fully glossed and precisely annotated, with
an Editors’ Note following each section....
A Chronology of Spenser’s Life and an
extensive Bibliography are also included."
--The Publisher
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The
Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser, Albert Charlie Hamilton
Paperback
Published by Longman Group UK, January 1981
"Provides full annotation of the text, detailed
guidance to critical comment past and present,
and a wealth of introductory material setting the
poem in its full historical and literary context."
—The Publisher.
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The
Fairy Queen
(Everyman Paperback Classics)
by Edmund Spenser, Douglas Brooks-Davies (Editor)
Paperback Revised Edition
Everyman Paperback Classics, 1996
"Published to commemorate the six-book
1596 edition, this first modernized text
presents selections from modern England's
first epic poem." —The Publisher
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Selected
Shorter Poems
(Longman Annotated Texts)
by Douglas Brooks-Davies (Editor)
Paperback
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; Sept 1995
From the editor of "Silver Poets" comes
this annotated edition of Spenser's shorter
poems. Includes a chronology, wood cuts,
and a bibliography.
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Fierce
Wars and Faithful Loves:
Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser Roy Maynard (Editor)
Paperback
Canon Press; Jan 1999
"Roy Maynard takes the first book of the Faerie Queen,
exploring the concept of Holiness with the character of
the Redcross Knight, and makes Spenser accessible
again. He does this not by dumbing it down, but by
deftly modernizing the spelling, explaining the obscurities
in clever asides, and cueing the reader towards the right
response." —Dr. Gene Edward Veith
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A
View of the State of Ireland :
From the First Printed Edition (1633)
by Edmund Spenser, Andrew Hadfield, ed.,
Willy Mayley, ed.
Blackwell Publishers, September 1997
"In this new edition, aimed at
securing for
this vital document the wide readership it
deserves, the editors offer the first pub-
lished text, as edited by Sir James Ware
(1633). Ware´s preface and notes are supp-
lemented with an authoritative introduction,
discussing the View´s reception, relating it
to Spenser´s corpus as a whole, and summarising
recent scholarship. The editors also provide
a bibliography of criticism, and detailed
notes designed to help the student."
—The Publisher
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The Faerie Queene
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The
Faerie Queene : A Reader's Guide
by Elizabeth Heale
Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1999
"Designed as a handbook to be
consulted by students
while reading the poem, is the only convenient and
up-to-date guide available. Religious and political contexts
are explained, while the analysis of Spenser's literary
techniques encourages close reading. This revised edition
takes account of recent developments in Spenserian
criticism, and brings the guidance on further reading
up to date." —Amazon.com
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Spenser's
Allegory of Love : Social Vision
in Books III, IV and V of the Faerie Queene
by James W. Broaddus
Hardcover
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, October 1995
"Spenser's Allegory of Love
approaches the major characters in
Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene as fictional personages
who function psychically according to Renaissance sexual
psychology and physically according to Renaissance sexual
physiology. This approach enables readings of the quests in
their own peculiar, allegorical way as imitations of actions. For
each of the questers - Britomart, Florimell, Scudamour, and Timias -
union with a loved one is the goal; and that goal is achieved,
however problematically, in each of the quests. When the interwoven
quests, which begin in Book III, continue through Book IV, and,
with Britomart's quest, into Book V, are separated out and explicated,
these three books of Spenser's Faerie Queene can be read so as
to constitute a social vision." —The Publisher
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Mapping
the Faerie Queene : Quest Structures
and the World of the Poem
by Wayne Erickson
Hardcover
Published by Garland Pub, February 1996
"Analyzes the setting of The Faerie Queene,
examining Spenser's quest structures and his
ideas about epic, romance, and history,
demonstrating that Faeryland is part of an epic
cosmos reaching from heaven and the abode
of the classical deities to demonic underground
realms, and discussing the politico-historical
world built around Faeryland."
--Book News, Inc.
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Shepheardes Calender
The
Shepheardes Calender (1579)
by Edmund Spenser
Hardcover
Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint; June 1979
Facsimile reprint.
The
Shepheardes Calander : An Introduction
by Lynn Staley Johnson
Hardcover
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr; November 1990
"Analyzes Edmund Spenser's first major poem (1579)
as a self-conscious effort to create a new literature,
which proposed a reality, rather than describing one.
Draws on a wide range of primary sources to explore
intention, methods, and context." —Book News, Inc.
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Astrological
Symbolism in Spenser's 'the Shepheardes Calender ' :
The Cultural Background of a Literary Text
by J. Michael Richardson
Hardcover
Edwin Mellen Press; November 1989
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Religion
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Spenser
and Biblical Poetics
by Carol V. Kaske
ardcover
Cornell University Press; January 2000
"[T]he first comprehensive account of
the contradictions
and inconsistencies in Spenser's imagery--particularly in
The Faerie Queene. These and his well-known
contra-
dictions in doctrine Kaske accepts and celebrates. She
shows that Spenser challenges the reader with problems
arising from his endorsement of both Protestant and Catholic
traditions." —The Publisher
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Spenser
and the Discourses of Reformation England
by Richard Mallette
Hardcover
Univ of Nebraska Press, October 1997
"According to Mallette, The Faerie Queene not only
represents Reformation values but also challenges,
questions, and frequently undermines Protestant
assumptions. Building upon recent scholarship,
particularly new historicism, Protestant poetics,
feminism, and gender theory, this ambitious study
traces The Faerie Queene's linkage of religion to
political and social realms."
—The Publisher
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Interpretation
and Theology in Spenser
by Darryl J. Gless
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1994
"[Gless] focuses less on what Spenser intended than
on the ways readers might construe both the poet's
works and the theological doctrines which those works
invoke.... he provides a useful survey of major doctrinal
concepts, and develops a thorough analysis of the first,
most widely studied, book of Spenser's Elizabethan
epic The Faerie Queene. --Card catalog
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Spenser and Other Authors
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Imagining
Death in Spenser and Milton
by Elizabeth Jane Bellamy (Ed),
Patrick Cheney (Ed), Michael Schoenfeldt (Ed)
Published by Palgrave Macmillan; January 3, 2004
"This is a collection of essays on the topic of death in two
monumental representatives of the early modern canon,
Edmund Spenser
and John Milton. The volume draws its
impetus from the conviction that
death is a central yet
curiously understudied preoccupation for Spenser
and Milton,
contending that death in all its early modern reformations
and
deformations is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to
articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton."
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The
Reformation of the Subject : Spenser,
Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
by Linda Gregerson
Hardcover
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1995
"Through detailed readings of The Faerie Queene
and Paradise Lost, and using feminist, psycho-
analytic, political, and formal analysis, Linda
Gregerson traces the strategies by which Spenser,
and then Milton, distinguished their poems from
idols, while making the epic poem an instrument
for the reformation of the reading and political
subject." --CUP Catalog
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Milton,
Spenser and the Epic Tradition
by Patrick J. Cook
US $65.95
Hardcover
Scolar Press, June 1996
"[A] study of the epic genre and its
evolution from Homer
to Milton. Patrick Cook demonstrates how the Illiad, the
Odyssey, the Aeneid, Orlando
Furioso,
the Faerie Queene,
and Paradise Lost have greatly enhanced their successors.
[It] not only provides an essential context in which the
works of the later English poets should be read, but also presents
a fresh individual analysis of these familiar works."
—Midwest Book Review
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Jonson's
Spenser : Evidence and Historical Criticism
by James A. Riddell, Stanley Stewart
Published by Duquesne Univ Pr, August 1995
"A facsimile, transcription, and interpretation
of Ben Jonson's annotated personal copy of
Edmund Spenser's 1617 folio."
--Book News, Inc.
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Feminist Criticism
Miscellaneous
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The
Cambridge Companion to Spenser
by Andrew Hadfield (Editor)
Cambridge University Press; June 18, 2001
"In this accessible and rigorous
introduction to Spenser, fourteen specially-commissioned essays 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. A chronology and further
reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of
Spenser. "
—The Publisher.
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Edmund
Spenser
(Twayne's English Authors Series, No 535)
by William Allan Oram
Hardcover
Twayne Pub, February 1997
"The first comprehensive introduction
to Spenser's
work since 1963, places his epic, The Fairie Queene,
in the context of his shorter works and gives those
works extended treatment....also treats Spenser's
imaginative revision of his experience in his later poetry....
prefaces the discussion of Spenser's works with a
biographical chapter, and follows it with a brief account
of Spenser's influence."
—The Publisher.
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Spenser's
Forms of History
by Bart Van Es
Oxford University Press; November 2002
"In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart
Van Es presents an
engaging study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of
"forms of history"--chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology,
political prophecy, and others--in both his poetry and his prose, and
assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry. " —The
Publisher.
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Edmund
Spenser
(Longman Critical Reader Series)
by Andrew Hadfield (Editor)
Paperback
US $33.60
Hardcover
US $53.75
Addison Wesley Pub Co, November 1996
"This collection represents some of
the best
recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a
major Renaissance English poet. The essays
cover the whole of Spensers work, from early
literary experiments such as The Shepheardes
Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work, The
Fairie Queene. The introduction provides an
overview of critical responses to Spenser, setting
his work and the debates which it has generated
in their perspective contexts: new historicist,
post-structural, psychoanalytic and feminist."
—The Publisher
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