The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

by Andrew Hadfield

Book Overview

In this accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser, fourteen specially-commissioned essays provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521645700
• ISBN13: 9780521645706
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"