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The Works of Edmund Spenser

A Variorum Edition

Edmund Spenser
edited by Edwin Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor Osgood, and Frederick Morgan Pedelford

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Volume 2
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Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.

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Once more we are in debt to the great and gracious scholar who has done more than anyone in our century to expedite the study of Spenser's poetry.

The usefulness of the compilation and the skill with which it has been put together will be remarked continually by scholars.

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Available
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6
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9
Pages
529
ISBN
9780801869846
Table of Contents

Text
Commentary
Appendices:
I. The Date of Composition
II. Historical Allegory
III. Moral Allegory
IV. The Virtue of Temperance
V. Spense and Milton
VI. The Mortality Theme
VII. Sources
VIII. The Castle of the

Text
Commentary
Appendices:
I. The Date of Composition
II. Historical Allegory
III. Moral Allegory
IV. The Virtue of Temperance
V. Spense and Milton
VI. The Mortality Theme
VII. Sources
VIII. The Castle of the Body
IX. Elizabethan Psychology
X. The Structure
XI. The Twenty-Second Stanza of Canto 9
Textual Appendix
Bibliography

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene.
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Edwin Greenlaw

Edwin Greenlaw was head of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University and the former dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.