The first comprehensive collection of the shorter poems since the Variorum minor poems of the 40s. Cloth edition ($55.) not seen by R&R. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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The expressed purpose of this volume is "to make available to students the texts of Spenser's shorter poems with introductions and notes which respond to developments in Spenser criticism over the past forty years." Thus, it is an update of the Variorum Minor Poems, published in the 1940s, and a successful one. It surpasses the Everyman edition (now out of print) in not modernizing spellings and in glossing difficult or arcane terms. The print is attractive and the book a pleasure to read; the paperback version should find wide use in Renaissance literature courses. The price of the hardcover version, however, will present problems for many libraries. Still, libraries wanting an update of the Variorum , or lacking it while having an active Spenser audience, should consider this strongly.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The definitive version for the serious academic student,
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This review is from: The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser (Hardcover)
If you are in any way responsible academically for Spenser's shorter works, this is the book. Editing, of course, refers to how the text of the poems is managed with regard to conflicts in early editions, etc. Here, decisions on text are made consistently and all changes vs. early texts are listed in the Appendices. Also useful, even though it's now more than 12 years out of date, is the annotated bibliography, which provides a good starting point for additional literary research.
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marred by overediting,
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This review is from: The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser (Paperback)
This book would normally get a "10" for providing us with the shorter poems of Edmund Spenser, but it is marred by overediting. The collective ego of Yale comes through on almost every page. I can see one footnote that begins, "There is irony here." I ask, is there any poem without irony? Why point it out? A footnote should be providing the student with factual information, references to allusions, etc., and not providing interpretation. So, buy the book; Spenser is so great a poet that philosophy textbooks sometimes devote pages to him; but ignore the editing.
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For the culture of the Renaissance the most celebrated poet was Virgil, who had risen from modest birth to become the epic voice of the Augustan empire and the emperor's own protege. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Philip Sidney, The Shepheardes Calender, The Book of the Duchess, The Ruines of Time, Virgils Gnat, Gabriel Harvey, Geneva Bible, The Teares of the Muses, Old Testament, Sweete Themmes, Mother Hubberds Tale, Plato's Symposium, Douglas Howard, Fowre Hymnes, Arthur Gorges, Ash Wednesday, Genealogia Deorum, Gentle Reader, Mary Sidney, Natural History, Sir Walter Ralegh, Holy Spirit, Natalis Comes, Robert Dudley, Ruines of Rome New!
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- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 15 pages
- Fowre Hymnes by Edmund Spenser on 9 pages
- The Book Of The Duchess And Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer on 6 pages
- Amoretti and Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser on 6 pages
- The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics) by Baldesar Castiglione on 4 pages
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- The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Douglas Trevor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Margreta de Grazia on page 123, and page 209
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