The Spenser Encyclopedia

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 1997 - Reference - 858 pages

Since its appearance in 1990, The Spenser Encyclopedia has become the reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser (1552-99), offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works, and influence. Comprehensive in scope and international in outlook, the encyclopedia contains some 700 entries by 422 contributors in 20 countries. An index provides access to material not obvious at first glance through the main body of the book, and all works cited more than once in the encyclopedia are included in an extensive bibliography. A brief historical preface and a guide to using the encyclopedia are included. This paperback edition brings this tool within range of all Spenser scholars.

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About the author (1997)

A. C. HAMILTON is Cappon Professor of English at Queen's University. He is the author of a number of books including Sir Philip Sidney: A Study of His Life and Works; Northrop Frye: Anatomy of His Criticism; and The Early Shakespeare. DONALD CHENEY is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Spenser's Image of Nature (1966), translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filocolo (1985), and co-editor of The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990).

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