Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)

Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Author: Kenneth Borris
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526133474

Spenser’s extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile of the 1579 Calender available as a book. The editor reconsiders the original book’s development, production, design, and particular characteristics, and demonstrates both its correlations with diverse precursors in print and its significant departures. Numerous illustrations of archival sources facilitate comparison. By reinvestigating the 1579 Calender’s twelve pictures, he shows that Spenser himself probably designed them, that they involve complex symbolism, and that this book’s meaning is thus profoundly verbal-visual. An analyzed facsimile is an essential new resource for study of Spenser’s Calender, Spenser, Elizabethan print and poetics, and early modern English literary history.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1912
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

The Shepheardes Calendar; The Original Edition of 1579 in Photographic Facsimile

The Shepheardes Calendar; The Original Edition of 1579 in Photographic Facsimile
Author: Professor Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296804565

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