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Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

wrote The Faerie Queen

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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spenser.htm

This site created for "students and enthusiasts of English literature" includes links to the life and works of Edmund Spenser, links to essays and articles on Spenser's work, and provides a list and links to additional sources for information about Spenser.

Contains: Works List, Works Available, Pictures, Timeline, Criticism, Commentary, Sketch

Author: Anniina Jokinen.

Keywords: "The Faerie Queene," "Astrophel and Stella," "Amoretti and Epithalamion"

 

Edmund Spenser Home Page

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm

This page seeks to collect any and all Net materials pertaining to the works and life of Edmund Spenser. Includes texts of Spenser's work, links to a chronology, calls for papers, the Spenser Society homepage, and many other resources.

Contains: Works Available, Works List, Pictures, Criticism, Commentary, Webliography, Bibliography

Author: Andrew Zurcher

Keywords: "The Faerie Queene," "Astrophel and Stella," "Amoretti and Epithalamion"

 

The Poetry of Spenser

http://www.bartleby.com/213/index.html#11

This lengthy analysis of the author's life and works includes sections on "SpenserÕs family", "Platonism in SpenserÕs love poems", "The Faerie Queene", "Spenser as a word-painter and as a metrical musician", and "Summary view of SpenserÕs genius."

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: W. J. Courthope

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume III: English, Renascence and Reformation

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Reaping What Was Sown: Spenser, Chaucer, and the Plowman's Tale

http://www.uwm.edu/~dclark/thesis.pdf

"I will show the way a single, powerful aspect of the RenaissanceChaucer transformed the first book of one of the most canonical poems in English literature, The Faerie Queene. Demonstrating how The Plowman's Tale transformed Spenser's work in Book One is important for us because an understanding of the Tale's impact makes us re-examine our views of Edmund Spenser himself, showing him to be a poet concerned with the cultural construction of the English nation."

Contains: Commentary, Criticism

Author: Clark, David Paul

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Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Papers/spenser.html

"Spenser was much on the mind of Samuel Johnson, one of the most active and important of those developing our notion of the Renaissance -- not in any extended treatment, but in scattered comments from the 1730s through the '80s.2 Spenser's position in Johnson's thought has received little attention,3 but tugging on these Spenserian loose ends reveals a thread woven across the entire fabric of Johnson's criticism. "

Contains: Criticism, Commentary

Author: Lynch, Jack

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