The Complete Works in Verse and Prose

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019563564

This complete collection of works by the famous poet Edmund Spenser includes his most famous poem, Faerie Queene, as well as other notable works such as Two Cantos on Mutabilitie and Letter to Sir W Raleigh. Also included are several other poems and sonnets, as well as commendations from other noteworthy individuals. 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.

The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes

The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 1521
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1603840389

The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.

Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene

Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene
Author: Judith H Anderson
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1580443184

Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. Taken together, their stories have a meaningful tale to tell about the function of narrative, which proves central to figuration in the still moving, metamorphic poem that Spenser created.

The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos

The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1603840265

Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there are moments of great beauty and harmony, such as the famous dance of the Graces that Colin Clout, the rustic alter ego of the poet himself, conjures up with his pipe. Book Seven, the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, is among the finest of Spenser's poetic works, in which he explains the mythical origins of his world, as the gods debate on the hill opposite his Irish house. Whether order or chaos triumphs in the end has been the subject of most subsequent critical debate.

The Routledge History of Literature in English

The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2001
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780415243179

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Edmund Spenser in Context

Edmund Spenser in Context
Author: Andrew Escobedo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2016-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316869873

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.