The Shorter Poems

The Shorter Poems
ISBN-10
0140434453
ISBN-13
9780140434453
Series
The Shorter Poems
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
816
Language
English
Published
2006-12-07
Publisher
ePenguin
Authors
Edmund Spenser, Richard Mccabe

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.

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