The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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.
20 25 30 35 Some in much ioy, many in many teares: Yet neuer complained of cold nor heate, Of Sommers flame, nor of Winters threat: Ne euer was to Fortune foeman, But gently tooke, that vngently came. And euer my flocke was my chiefe ...
Spenser: The Critical Heritage. New York: Barnes & Noble,1971. Danner, Bruce. Edmund Spenser's War on Lord Burghley. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Davenport, Arnold. “Commentary.” The Poems of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter and ...
The next narrative poem that catches the eye is Roland Furious, John Stewart of Baldynneis's 'abbregement' of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Stewart does more than 'abridge' his notoriously complex source: in his poem's only witness, ...
CREWE, Hidden Designs, p. 55. 12. Cf. RONALD BOND's introductory remarks on Complaints in the Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems. ]EAN R. BRINK, in 'Who Fashioned Edmund Spenser? The Textual History of Complaints,' SP 87 (1991): 153—68, ...
E. S., Selected Shorter Poems, ed. by Douglas Brooks-Davies, London: Longman, 1995. [A modernised text based on the original editions; excellent annotations with a particular emphasis on Spenser's Platonism.] E. S., The Shorter Poems, ...
For a more discursive study of Spenser's use of biblical material, see Kaske, Spenser and Biblical Poetics. 24. For a historical accommodation of these events, see Montrose, “Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text.
As Judith Anderson writes, “Whenever the poet of The Faerie Queene thought about love, any kind of love, ... Spenser with a tool for exploring his nation's geographical and historical integrity” (Spenser's Forms of History, 64).
27 On Florimell as beauty, see Roche, 'Florimell', in SpE, pp. 309–10; and pp. 162–4 below. 28 On the implications of this irony for Queen Elizabeth as Gloriana, see p. 174 below. 29 Critical discussions of Spenser's use of Troilus tend ...
The correction of '3 furlonnges' on line 9 is taken from W. W. Greg, 'A Collier Mystification', Review of English Studies 1 (1925): 452–4, 454. The attributions of the work to George Peele are due to claims made by John Payne Collier, ...