Spensers Secret Career

by Richard Rambuss

Book Overview

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) conducted two careers at once: a celebrated national poet, he also pursued a lifelong career as secretary to various political and ecclesiastical figures. Richard Rambuss's book explores the ways in which this latter career, usually allotted only a cursory mention in accounts of Spenser's professional and social ambitions, informed his poetic career. The study takes issue with prevailing historicist accounts which see Spenser's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030935
• ISBN13: 9780521030939
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"