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Edmund Spenser's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism
Edmund Spenser's Poetry Authoritative Texts Criticism Author:Edmund Spenser, Hugh Maclean (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor) All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed and precisely annotated, with an Editor's Note following each section. Seventeen critical essays, judiciously chosen from the many published since 1982, have been added to supplement eleven earlier commentaries. Also included are the perspectives of Spenser's contempo... more »rary William Camden, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson, Richard Helgerson, Louis Adrian Montrose, and David Lee Miller. The critical essays on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped to "speak" to each other in ways sure to stimulate classroom discussion. This class-tested feature is back by popular demand along with essays by D. C. Allen, Robert A. Brinkley, Ronald P. Bond, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew D. Weiner, Susanne Lindgren Wofford, Harry Berger, Jr., and Paul Alpers.
A chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive bibliography are also included.« less