The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser

by Edmund Spenser

Book Overview

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's shorter poems reveal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300042450
• ISBN13: 9780300042450
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 860 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

The definitive version for the serious academic student

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 Also useful, even though it's now more than 12 years out of date, is the annotated bibliography, which provides a good starting point for additional literary research.