Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

The Faerie Queene

Abraham Dylan Stoll

Carol V. Kaske

Dorothy Stephens

Part of a series of Spenser's great work, this title includes a general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters. It also contains 'Spenser's Letter to Raleigh' and a short 'Life of Spenser'.

Teresa Page

Amoretti

Anne Lake Prescott

Edmund Spenser's Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.

Authoritative Texts, Criticism

Edmund Spenser's Poetry

Andrew Hadfield

Erik Irving Gray

Part of a series of volumes, each of which provide one book of Spenser's great work, a concise general Introduction, annotation, Spenser's letter to Raleigh, a short “Life of Spenser,” note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters.

Newly represented in the 3rd ed. are Spenser's contemporary WilliamCamden and, from the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson.

Epithalamion

The Faerie Queene, Book I

A Variorum Edition

The Works of Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene, Book Four

The Faerie Queene, Book Three

One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand

The Complete Works of Edmund Spencer

Roy Maynard

Despite all of his acknowledged greatness, almost no one reads Edmund Spenser (1552-99) anymore. Roy Maynard takes the first book of the 'Faerie Queene, ' exploring the concept of Holiness with the character of the Redcross Knight, and makes Spenser accessible again. He does this not by dumbing it down, but by deftly modernizing the spelling, explaining the obscurities in clever asides, and cuing the reader towards the right response. In today's cultural, aesthetic, and educational wars, Spenser is a mighty ally for twenty-first century Christians. Maynard proves himself a worthy mediator between Spenser's time and ours. (Gene Edward Veith)

Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves

Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume.

EDMUND SPENSER: AMORETTI The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser is one of the great Elizabethan cycles of love poetry. The Amoretti cycle of poems is printed here in full, with each sonnet on its own on a page. This is beautiful poetry, poems of love, full of Spenser's delicate and intricate way with words. Full of vivid imagery, of the natural world, of the seasons, of suns and moons, of days and nights - this is love poetry at its most refined and intelligent.

Richard Mccabe

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex metrical forms. The range of this volume allows him to emerge fully in the varied and conflicting personae he adopted, as satirist and eulogist, elegist and lover, polemicist and prophet. The volume includes The Shepeardes Calender, Complaints, and A Theatre for Wordlings.

Edmund Spenser

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