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The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser
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.
Paperback, 860 pages
Published
September 10th 1989
by Yale University Press
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Shepheardes Calender
The Shepheardes Calendar is brilliant, far superior to Faerie Queene. The Amoretti and Epithalamion are wonderful accounts of love and marriage, with a hint of biography as Spenser charts progress on his work. Colin Clout's Home Againe is not a great work, but it is important to his ouevre. Overall, a good collection to have on one's shelf if you're interested in Renaissance literature.
The shorter poems of Spenser give a thorough insight into his appropriation of Greco-Roman mythology, particularly the Virgilian rota. These shorter works also explore Spenser's dedication to reviving and revising English as a language.
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Everyone always focuses on The Faerie Queene but this is where the real gold is. Spenser was a lyricist before anything else and his quest to complete the Rota Virgilli produced some of the best short poems in the English language. I particularly recommend "The Shepheardes Calender", a pastoral masterpiece that combines Elizabethan politics with the growth of a poet. For the mathematically inclined, check out the "Amoretti/Epithalamion" and pay particular attention to the ...more
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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an important English poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem celebrating, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Though he is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, Spenser is also a controversial figure due to his zeal for the destruction of...more
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Though he is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, Spenser is also a controversial figure due to his zeal for the destruction of...more
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