To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie." Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, increasingly a focus of critical attention, is an important addition, and Amoretti is offered in its entirety. Seventeen critical essays, judiciously chosen from the many published since 1982, have been added to supplement eleven earlier commentaries. New to the Third Edition are the perspectives of Spenser's contemporary William Camden, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson, Richard Helgerson, Louis Adrian Montrose, and David Lee Miller. The critical essays on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped to "speak" to each other in ways sure to stimulate classroom discussion. This class-tested feature is back by popular demand along with essays by D. C. Allen, Robert A. Brinkley, Ronald P. Bond, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew D. Weiner, Susanne Lindgren Wofford, Harry Berger, Jr., and Paul Alpers. A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
ISBN-10
0393962997
ISBN-13
9780393962994
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128442
Product Key Features
Author
Edmund Spenser
Publication Name
Edmund Spenser's Poetry : Authoritative Texts, Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Series
Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
864 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
0
Lc Classification Number
Pr2352.M3 1993
Edition Number
3
Copyright Date
1993
Topic
Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh