A selection of Spenser's shorter poems which illustrate his unique poetic genius. When Spenser published The Shepherd's Calendar in 1579 it announced the arrival of a rising star in the literary world and the dawn of the Great age of Elizabethan poetry. Although it's dominant theme is pastoral, which had not previously been attenoted in English, it is also political and deals frankly witb the historical currents of spenser's era. Above all, it is a poem of unrequieted love cleverly woven into the passage of the seasons. In Colin Clout's Come Home Again, he writes of his own unhappy Irish odyssey and looks forward to Clout's return to a literary Arcadia. Spenser's loving eulogy to his new wife in Amoretti and Epithalamion is where he confirms his literary authority. The semi erotic Muiopotmos : Or the fate of the butterfly together with the lyrical Prothalamion complete this selection.
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Spenser's shorter poems,
This review is from: Shorter Poems: A Selection (Paperback)
This is a selection published by Everyman of Edmund Spenser's shorter poems, in other words, the stuff he wrote besides The Faerie Queene. The poems it contains are "The Shepherds' Calendar," "Muiopotmos: Or, the Fate of the Butterfly," "Colin Clout's Come Home Again," "Amoretti and Epithalamion," and "Prothalamion." As you can see by the titles, this edition publishes the poems in modernized spelling.I would recommend this book mostly to people who are just starting to read Spenser. People are often intimidated by his Elizabethan spelling, and this edition can help a beginner get past that. Plus, at about 195 pages of poems, it's a compact selection of the best of Spenser. But for the more devoted admirer of Spenser, I suggest getting the Penguin Classics edition of "The Shorter Poems" of Edmund Spenser. It prints all his shorter poems in Spenser's original spelling. I don't know if that particular edition is available in the U.S. yet, but you can currently purchase it through Amazon.com.uk.
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