Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385196 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 816 pages

About the Author
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) was educated in London and Cambridge and in 1580 moved to Ireland as secretary to the Lord Deputy. His poem, The Faerie Queene, was the first English epic. Richard McCabe is a Fellow in English at Merton College Oxford and a lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on Renaissance Literature. Edited by Richard A. McCabe

Customer Reviews

Fantastic
This is a most pleasing collection of Spenser's poems other than The Faerie Queene and is highly accessible. It is the most comprehensive collection of such works to date, contains useful and in-depth, yet friendly, notes and has facsimiles of original publication covers (something which I always find delightful with literature from this period).

The book itself is also very well bound and has high-quality pages. A similar collection of his works published by Norton has almost unusably thin pages, which was quite annoying when trying to flick through, especially when cross-referencing.