The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotatio...
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Jan 15, 2011
Yeti
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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.
Dec 22, 2007
Molly
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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.
Jan 15, 2011
Anthony
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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
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