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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

Volume
Volume 3
Publication Date
Binding Type

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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Publication Date
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Available
Trim Size
6
x
9
Pages
444
ISBN
9780801869853
Table of Contents

Text
Commendatory Verses and Dedicatory Sonnets
Commentary
Appendices:
I. The Plan and Conduct of Book Three
II. The Origin of Britomart
III. The Garden of Adonis
IV. The Masque of Cupid
V. The Italian

Text
Commendatory Verses and Dedicatory Sonnets
Commentary
Appendices:
I. The Plan and Conduct of Book Three
II. The Origin of Britomart
III. The Garden of Adonis
IV. The Masque of Cupid
V. The Italian Romances
VI. The Historical Allegory
VII. The Women of the Allegory
VIII. Spenser's Use of the Plastic Arts
IX. Sources and Analogues
Textual Appendix:
Variant Readings
Critical Notes on the Test
Bibliography

Author Bios
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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.