The Shorter Poems
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
816 pages
978-0-14-043445-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-043445-3 (9780140434453)
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Persons
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
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
Content
The Shorter PoemsIllustrations
Chronology
Introduction
From A Theatre for Worldlings
Epigrams
Sonets
Chronology
Introduction
From A Theatre for Worldlings
Epigrams
Sonets
The Shepheardes Calender
Januarye
Februarie
March
Aprill
Maye
June
Julye
August
September
October
Nouember
December
From Letters (1580)
Complaints
The Ruines of Time
The Teares of the Muses
Virgils Gnat
Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale
Ruines of Rome: by Bellay
Mviopotmos
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie
The Visions of Bellay
The Visions of Petrarch
Daphnaïda
Colin Clovts Come Home Againe
Colin Clovts Come Home Againe
Astrophel
Dolefull Lay of Clorinda
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Amoretti
Anacreontics
Epithalamion
Fowre Hymnes
An Hymne in Honovr of Love
An Hymne in Honovr of Beavtie
An Hymne of Heavenly Love
An Hymne of Heavenly Beavtie
Prothalamion
Commendatory Sonnets
Attributed Verses
Notes; Abbreviations
Glossary of Common Terms
Textual Apparatus
Further Reading