The Edmund Spenser Page




( c. 1552-1599 )

Major Works
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. Edited byThomas P. Roche with the assistance of C. Patrick O'Donnell, Jr. Yale, 1981. Reasonably large print with notes suitable for beginners. Reprinted in Penguin paperback (1978); the print is perhaps even larger. That is a consideration!! Edmund Spenser's Poetry is a Norton Critical (3rd) Edition, selected and edited by Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott.
The Shepheardes Calendar ( 1579 ).
Letters ( 1580 ). Addressed to Gabriel Harvey.
Complaints Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie ( 1591 ). In parts as follows:
  1. "The Ruins of Time"
  2. "The Teares of the Muses"
  3. "Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberds Tale"
  4. Virgils Gnat"
  5. "Ruines of Rome. By Bellay"
  6. "Muiopotmos"
  7. "Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"
  8. "The Visions of Bellay"
  9. "The Visions of Petrarch, Formerly Translated"
Daphnaïda ( 1591 ).
Colin Clouts Come Home Again ( 1595 ).
Astrophel ( 1595 ).
The Doleful Lay of Clorinda ( 1586 ).
Amoretti ( 1591-1595 ).
Epithalamion ( 1591-1595 ).
Prothalamion ( 1596 ).
Fowre Hymnes ( 1596 )
A Veue of the Present State of Ireland
The Faerie Queene ( 1590, bks 1-3; 1596, bks 1-6; 1609 in one volume with addition of cantos of incomplete bk 7.
See the Edmund Spenser Home Page ( below ).

About Spenser
Leicester Bradner, Edmund Spenser and the Faerie Queene. Chicago, 1948.
Graham Hough, A Preface to the Faerie Queene. Norton, 1963.
C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love. Oxford, 1936.
Edmund Spenser. At the Luminarium.
The Edmund Spenser Home Page. A comprehensive Spenser page from Cambridge University.
Spenser Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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