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Edmund Spenser: A Life

Edmund Spenser: A Life

Andrew Hadfield

——The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, ed. John Hughes, 6 vols. (London, 1715) . ——The Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. H. J. Todd, 8 vols. (London, 1805). —— The Works of Edmund Spenser, with observations on his life and writings, ed.
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Andrew Hadfield

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet.
The Works of Edmund Spenser

The Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

1591. P. xxxviii. Puttenham, in his "Arte of English Poese."] There was both a George and a Richard Puttenham in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth. George was a suitor respecting his property in the year 1584, when the Council made an ...
Edmund Spenser, a Reception History

Edmund Spenser, a Reception History

David Hill Radcliffe

Survey of Spenser's critical reception, showing how it is conditioned by period and cultural context.
A View of the State of Ireland

A View of the State of Ireland

Edmund Spenser

This student edition is based on the first published text and offers an authoritative introduction, discussing the View's reception, relating it to Spenser's corpus as a whole, and summarising recent scholarship.
Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569--1679

Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569--1679

Steven K. Galbraith

The first chapter examines Spenser's interactions with books and the book trade during his youth and how these interactions helped shape his literary career.
Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl

Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl

Andrew Hadfield

The book contains an analysis of Spenser's life on the Munster plantation, readings of the political rhetoric and antiquarian discourse of A View of the Present State of Ireland, and three chapters which argue the case that the apparently ...
Life of Spenser. The Shepheards calendar. The Faerie queene

Life of Spenser. The Shepheards calendar. The Faerie queene

Edmund Spenser

P.xxxviii. Puttenham, in his^Arte of Englijh Poejie."] There was both a George and a Richard Puttenham in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth. George was a suitor respecting his property in the year 1584, when the Council made an order in ...
Byron's Romantic celebrity: industrial culture and the ...

Byron's Romantic celebrity: industrial culture and the ...

Tom Mole

David Hill Radcliffe observes that 'Of the better-known eighteenth century poets, only Johnson and Goldsmith did not imitate or burlesque Spenser in verse.' David Hill Radcliffe, Edmund Spenser: A Reception History (Columbia, SC: Camden ...
The Faerie Qveene

The Faerie Qveene

Edmund Spenser

This edition also includes additional original material which includes a chronology, a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses, and dedicatory sonnets.
Reformation

Reformation

Andrew Hadfield

These articles demonstrate the need to study the history of the Reformation in terms of a series of wider contexts than that of a straightforward Protestant versus Catholic model. Two important pieces follow on the work of Edmund Spenser.
Spenser Goes to El Paso

Spenser Goes to El Paso

Melanie Brooks

In this book, Spenser learns about conserving water by turning off the faucet while brushing his teeth, something every child can learn to do. Activities and tasks in the book offer the opportunity to earn points.
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

David Norbrook

In this revised edition of his groundbreaking study, David Norbrook offers a clear account of the issues that engaged the passions of such leading figures as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and provides ...
Spenser Hearts Portland

Spenser Hearts Portland

Melanie Brooks

In this book, Spenser learns about the problem of littering and how children can help solve the problem. Activities and tasks in the book offer the opportunity to earn points.
The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia

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... her palace (I iv 36) depict the traditional consequences of pride: spiritual blindness anddeath (see Crossett and Stump 1984:210). ... In FQ VIIviii1, Spenser dismisses all thingsthatarenot of heavenas mere 'flowring pride.' DONALDV.STUMP ...
The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist.
Spenser Studies

Spenser Studies

Patrick Cullen

STEVEN K. GALBRAITH "English" Black-Letter Type and Spenser's Shepheardes Calender Modern studies of books as material objects have neglected the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England black- letter type was called ...
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Stanley J. Tambiah

Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Ten Acres Is Enough

Ten Acres Is Enough

Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris. Practical. Views. Safety. of. Investments. in. Land. There. was not a particle of romance in my aspirations for a farm, neither had I formed a visionary theory which was there to be tested. My notions were all sober and prosaic.

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