Edmund Spenser

by Colin Burrow

Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. Readers have always been immediately attracted by the fluid grace of is language, and by the magical world of dwarfs, hermits, knights and dragons evoked in The Faerie Queene, but have often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746307500
• ISBN13: 9780746307502
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages