Edmund SpenserAndrew Hadfield This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet who has helped to inspire some of the most vigorous critical movements within recent English studies. The essays cover the whole range of Spenser's work, from his early literary experiments such as the 'Shepheardes Calendar', to his unfinished crowning work, 'The Faerie Queene', and his controversial treatise, 'A View Of The Present State Of Ireland.' |
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Introduction | 1 |
the ideology of poetic | 23 |
the poetics | 30 |
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