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| | Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The diversity of forms and meters, ranging from accentual-syllabic to purely accentual, and including such departures as the sestina in "August," gave Spenser's contemporaries a clue to the range of his powers and won him praise in his day. | | | Spenser intended to complete twelve books of the poem, but managed only six before his death. | | | The work remains the longest epic poem in the English language, and has inspired writers from John Milton and John Keats through James Joyce and Ezra Pound. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser
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| | EDMUND SPENSER - LoveToKnow Article on EDMUND SPENSER |
| | Spenser had too strong a genius not to make his own individuality felt in any form that he attempted, and his buoyant dexterity in handling various schemes of verse must always afford delight to the connoisseur in such things. | | | In his own day Spenser was criticized by Sidney, Belijonson, Daniel and others for the artificiality of his language, his aged accents and untimely words, but Ben Jonson went further Spensers stanza pleased him not, nor his matter. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SP/SPENSER_EDMUND.htm
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| | Spenser, Edmund on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton and Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory. | | | Recognized by his contemporaries as the foremost poet of his time, Spenser was not only a master of meter and language but a profound moral poet as well. | | | SPENSER, EDMUND [Spenser, Edmund] 1552?-1599, English poet, b. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s/spenser.asp
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| | [minstrels] from The Faerie Queen -- Edmund Spenser |
| | Spenser was considered in his day to be the greatest of English poets, who had glorified England and its language by his long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene, just as Virgil had glorified Rome and the Latin tongue by his epic poem the Aeneid. | | | According to Spenser's introductory letter in the first edition (1590) of his great poem, it was to contain 12 books, each telling the adventure of one of Gloriana's knights. | | | Like other poets, Spenser must have modified his general plan many times, yet this letter, inconsistent though it is with various plot details in the books that are extant, is probably a faithful mirror of his thinking at one stage. |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/328.html
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| | Spenser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hawk may be modeled on the sidekick in Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene; Artegal, the knight of justice, has a helper named Talus who is an invincible man of iron. | | | The other major character in the Spenser novels is his close friend Hawk (which is unlikely to be either of his real names), an equally tough but somewhat shady echo of Spenser himself. | | | This article is about the fictional detective named Spenser, not Edmund Spenser, the English poet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spenser
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| | Resources for the Study of Edmund Spenser |
| | A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser. | | | Hamilton, A. "On Annotating Spenser's Faerie Queene: A New Approach to the Poem." In Richard C. Frushell and Bernard J. Vondersmith, eds., Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser. | | | The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. |
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http://www.uky.edu/~jsreid2/Spenser/resources.html
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| | History of LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
| | Spenser's original scheme is for twelve books, each consisting of an adventure on behalf of Gloriana by one of her knights. | | | Spenser himself is a close witness of the struggles of the time. | | | Spenser, spinning his elaborate allegory in rural Ireland, stands at the end of a long and retrospective poetic tradition - though others will soon develop less archaic versions of the epic (as in Paradise Lost). |
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http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=79&HistoryID=aa08
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| | Edmund Spenser -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The poem reflects the influence of the poet Edmund Spenser. | | | Spenser originally planned the work in 12 books, each to depict a particular moral virtue in a knight, but he completed only six. | | | Historians do not agree on her greatness or her flaws, but to her subjects, she was Gloriana, as Edmund Spenser portrayed her in ‘The Faerie Queene' (see Elizabeth I; Spenser). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069075
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| | Spenser |
| | Spenser, looking back over these alternatives, decided that concatenation offered the best rhyme scheme, but also that the quatrain-couplet strategy gave him the most flexibility to tell a complex poetic "story" within each poem. | | | By Spenser's time, the collection of sonnets loosely organized around a poet's love for a lady was becoming a commonplace achievement. | | | Notice the repetitions of familiar motifs of the lovers' debate (65, 75), the lover as a ship at sea (34), love as a hunt (67), the beloved as a jeweled trap (37) or an assemblage of all Nature's beauties (64). |
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http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/Spenser.html
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| | The Classic Text: Edmund Spenser |
| | The avowed ‘Spenserian' poets, Browne of Tavistock and Giles and Phineas Fletcher, drew chiefly on the pastoral and allegorical romance elements in the poem. | | | In the later part of the century there was a serious critical vindication of Spenser's achievement [by Thomas Wharton and Bishop Hurd] who both argue that a special place in the literary pantheon should be accorded to the romantic epic of which The Faerie Queene was the prime example. | | | Published references exist to The Faerie Queene in the late 1580s, although the first edition of the work containing the first three books was not issued until 1590. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg086.htm
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| | [EMLS 4.2 / SI 3 (September, 1998): 7.1-26] Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser's "The Ruines of Time" |
| | Spenser moves on to Rome in the next stanza, but the language is conventionally ambiguous as to whether it refers to the Roman Empire of antiquity or to the fallen Roman Church. | | | In Spenser's question to Gabriel Harvey -- "Why a God's name, may not we, as else the Greeks, have the kingdom of our own language?"[20], there is already available the model of a national language that is always in translation. | | | I have used this particular edition because it is the most convenient printing of Spenser's shorter poems also to include the poems he wrote in his early career from the Theatre for Worldlings, alongside the emblematic illustrations. |
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http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/04-2/griftran.htm
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| | Queer History and Literature |
| | The Calender was written while Spenser was still an unmarried young man, long before he became "sage and serious" and had subsumed the ethical friendship theory of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Cicero's De Amicitia, both of which he would use only later, in the fourth book of The Faerie Queene (1596). | | | But the main objection to Palgrave's interpretation is the implication that Spenser is not in control of his poetic materials. | | | Sir Philip Sidney, for example, in his Defense of Poesy (probably written at almost the same time as Spenser's Calender) says that Plato in his Phaedrus and Symposium, and Plutarch in his Discourse on Love, both "authorize abhominable filthiness"; and Socrates was often called Alcibiades Paedogogus with an intended pun upon pedant, pedagogue, and pederast. |
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http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/pastor02.htm
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| | Edmund Spenser and the Faerie Queen |
| | The teacher shares with students that Edmund Spenser is often cited as the Elizabethan poet who first fashioned the sonnet and the sonnet sequence or sonnet series. | | | The teacher then shares that Edmund Spenser began an epic poem which may serve as an excellent example of all that the Renaissance embodied. | | | Spenser wrote a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh which has become famous among history and literary scholars. |
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http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=16269
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| | The Edmund Spenser Home Page: Biography |
| | Orn in or near 1552 to a family of modest means, Edmund Spenser was possibly the son of John Spenser, a free journeyman clothmaker resident in East Smithfield in London, though this relationship is far from certain. | | | Judging from a commentary on the scandal recently discovered in a contemporary letter, Spenser seems to have returned to Ireland in the early months of 1591 as a direct result of the offense he had caused to Burghley. | | | Although the Queen promised him a handsome pension for his labors, her generosity was questioned and moderated by the intercession of Lord Burghley, whom Spenser went on to lampoon in Complaints, printed and almost immediately suppressed (or 'called in') in 1591. |
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http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm
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| | mspenser |
| | In "Spenser's Faerie Queene-The World of Glass" Kathleen Williams demonstrates that the authors image of the whole work was that of a glass globe in which was reflected in miniature the image of the great globe. | | | This Spenser has been accepted as Edmund Spenser, author of the Spenser works. | | | And there is not a shred of evidence for the pet theory of the orthodoxia that Spenser returned to England in 1590 to prepare the Faerie Queene manuscript for publication. |
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http://www.sirbacon.org/mspenser.htm
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| | Criticism: Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar' and the Institutions of Elizabeth Society. - ... |
| | In the May eclogue, the metaphor of motherly care is deflated in the fables of a mother goat who abandons her kid for the pursuit of pleasure, unrealistically expecting admonition to serve in place of education, and the mother ape who inadvertently suffocates her "youngling" in a desire to embrace him too closely. | | | Criticism: Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar' and the Institutions of Elizabeth Society. | | | Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar' and the Institutions of Elizabeth Society. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n2_v37/ai_17249764
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| | Proposal for a new edition of the works of Edmund Spenser |
| | David Lee Miller is the author of one critical monograph and co-editor of one essay-collection on Spenser. | | | This is true not only because, as a "poetical works" rather than a collected works, it omits most of Spenser's prose, but also because even from the "poetical works" it omits some verses of questionable authorship (for example, two epigrams published by James Ware in 1633 and attributed to Spenser). | | | The edition would thus be the first attempt to assemble Spenser s works as a chronological series of printed historical documents, beginning with the 1569 edition of A Theatre for Worldlings (not the usual 1579 Shepheardes Calender), and ending with the 1633 edition of the View. |
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http://www.uky.edu/~jsreid2/Spenser/oxford.html
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| | The Classic Text: Edmund Spenser |
| | his edition is a facsimile of the second edition of 1596, published just three years before Spenser's death. | | | As a result, this text has become the standard upon which a majority of subsequent editions are based. | | | The first edition, published in 1590 contained only the first three books, while the third edition of 1609 added fragments from a seventh book authenticated by Spenser's publisher. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg087.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics): Books |
| | Spenser's masterpiece "The Faerie Queen", is among the most influential poems in the English language. | | | The literature of Spenser, unlike that of Shakespeare or other contemporaries, is almost always printed with the exact spelling found at at time. | | | In terms of density and richness of meaning, and of sheer proliferation of stories, it's an amazing work of genius that puts Spenser up there with Dante, Shakespeare and the rest of the world's very best writers. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140422072
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| | Spenser, Edmund |
| | Edmund Spenser - Spenser, Edmund, 1552?–1599, English poet, b. | | | The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser | | | The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0158930.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Edmund Spenser's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism: Books |
| | So take Spenser slowly, and give his words a chance to work their magic. | | | Although everyone has heard of Edmund Spenser's amazing narrative poem, 'The Faerie Queene,' it's a pity that few seem to read it. | | | Basically his language is standard Sixteenth Century English, but with antique spellings and a few medievalisms thrown in, along with a number of new words that Spenser coined himself. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393962997
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| | Luminarium Book Store: Edmund Spenser |
| | Astrological Symbolism in Spenser's 'the Shepheardes Calender ' : | | | Works of Edmund Spenser : Life of Edmund Spenser | | | The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser |
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http://www.luminarium.com/renlit/spenserbook.htm
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | Cut off from their culture, lonely, and on a 'flight from history,' Spenser's readers, according to this argument, looked to the poet's enchanted fairyland for the last redoubt of the imagination prior to the tyranny of reason. | | | Demonstrating how The Plowman's Tale transformed Spenser's work in Book One is important for us because an understanding of the Tale's impact makes us re-examine our views of Edmund Spenser himself, showing him to be a poet concerned with the cultural construction of the English nation." | | | Reaping What Was Sown: Spenser, Chaucer, and the Plowman's Tale |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=spe-11
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| | Amazon.com: The Works of Edmund Spenser: Books: Edmund Spenser |
| | It's handy to have all of Spenser's works in one text, and the binding holds up well, despite the thickness of the book. | | | Unfortunately, however, the notes to the text and the glossary are both in the back, which makes it cumbersome to flip back and forth. | | | Amazon.com: The Works of Edmund Spenser: Books: Edmund Spenser |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1853264423?v=glance
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| | The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | This edition includes the letter to Raleigh, in which Spenser declares his intentions for his poem, the commendatory verses by Spenser’s contemporaries and his dedicatory sonnets to the Elizabethan court, and is supplemented by a table of dates and a glossary. | | | Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. | | | The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser - Penguin Group (USA) |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140422072,00.html?sym=TAB
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| | Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595. |
| | It is not possible to 'modernise' entirely a Renaissance edition of a work, since some words are peculiar to the time, or of limited use, or only known to have been used by that one author, or spelt differently in different parts of the text. | | | This modern spelling version is offered for those who would like to read Spenser' Amoretti without having first to overcome the difficulties of idiosyncratic and archaic spellings which are a great hindrance to understanding. | | | We are happy for the most part to use modern spelling editions of Shakespeare and Marlowe, so why not of Spenser? |
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http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/Spenser1.htm
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| | Edmund Spenser -- Sonnet 75 -- info |
| | In the sixteenth century he came to be seen as an individual, unlike every other man. This individualism is reflected in Elizabethan poetry, of which Edmund Spenser is one of the greatest representatives. | | | After the action of the first quatrain he switches to the dialogue in the second and third, to conclude with the couplet which summarizes the theme of the sonnet. | | | In this sonnet, addressed to his wife, Spenser claims to give her immortality in his verse. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/poem/es-info.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Edmund Spenser |
| | Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), great English poet, who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods, and who is most famous for his long allegorical... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554691/Edmund_Spenser.html
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| | Edmund Spenser at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources |
| | Although Edmund Spenser wrote much of his poetry in the Elizabethan era, it relates clearly and passionately the medieval past. | | | For general discussions on literature, philosophy, politics and the humanities, visit the Classics Network Forums. | | | Own thousands of works of classic literature for less than 3c a book: our Classics Digital Library CD is the intelligent way to read and interact with the classics. |
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http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Spenser
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| | Edmund Spenser: Additional Sources |
| | Spenser at San Antonio College LitWeb - Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D. Editions of The Faerie Queene - UWM Classic Text | | | Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual - Spenser Society | | | Edmund Spenser : The Classic Text - UWM |
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http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/spenlink.htm
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| | Edmund Spenser's Seven Sins |
| | The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser is an enormous poem with tons and tons of literary allusions. | | | I put together this web cite to give you, the millions of Spenser fans, some insight and some clarity into where and what the seven deadly sins are. | | | Below, are the seventeenth through the thirtysixth stanzas in Canto IV, Book I. Read along and click on any sin for some extra information. |
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http://virtual.park.uga.edu/cdesmet/class/eng430/projects/collins
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| | Edmund Spenser - Wikiquote |
| | Wikisource has original works written by or about Edmund Spenser. | | | Source:The Faerie Queene, Book V, Introduction, stanza 1 |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser
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| | Edmund Spenser |
| | King James the Sixth of Scotland accuses Spenser of slandering his mother Mary Queen of Scots as the figure of Duessa in the "The Fairie Queene". | | | His father may have been the John Spenser from Lancashire who moved to London and became a member of the Merchant Taylor's Company. | | | His funeral was paid for by the Earl of Essex. |
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http://www.britainunlimited.com/Biogs/Spenser.htm
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| | Great Books and Classics - Edmund Spenser |
| | edition of Edmund Spenser's Poetry, includes Prothalamion, Epithalamion, The Shephearde's Calendar, and more, including much of the Faerie Queene (Viking Press, 1988, 1246 pg). | | | All links verified on or after May 8, 2005 |
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http://www.grtbooks.com/spenser.asp?idx=0&yr=1552&aa=SP&at=AA
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| | Edmund Spenser - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | While at Kilcolman, his estate in County Cork, Spenser met or reacquainted himself with his neighbor, Sir Walter Ralegh, who in 1589 brought him to London to present three books of The Faerie Queene (1590) to its dedicatee, Queen Elizabeth, who rewarded him with a pension of fifty pounds a year. | | | Edmund Spenser was born in London, probably in 1552, and was educated at the Merchant Taylor’s School from which he proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge. | | | There he met Gabriel Harvey, scholar and University Orator, who exerted an influence on his first important poem, The Shepheardes Calender (1579) On receiving the MA degree in 1576 he became secretary to John Young, Bishop of Rochester, formerly Master of Pembroke. |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000030372,00.html
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| | Contemporary Review: Edmund Spenser: the boyhood of a poet.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Contemporary Review: Edmund Spenser: the boyhood of a poet.@ HighBeam Research | | | EDMUND Spenser was born in 1553, the waning year of both King Edward VI and the English Reformation. | | | The son of an educated man from the landed gentry, Spenser showed excellent profiency in French as well as poetry writing during his childhood days, although he had his own share of misdemeanors. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15295932&refid=holomed_1
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| | Edmund Spenser: Biography of Edmund Spenser |
| | Nearly all we distinctly know of him henceforth, is the date of his several publications. | | | About this time it was that he commenced his great work, The Faery Queen. | | | Spenser takes admitted rank as one of the very greatest of British poets; and his chief work, The Faery Queen, written in that stateliest of English measures, since known by the name of its inventor, is a masterpiece of opulent genius. |
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http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/S/EdmundSpenser.html
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Edmund Spenser Page |
| | Leicester Bradner, Edmund Spenser and the Faerie Queene. | | | Edmund Spenser's Poetry is a Norton Critical (3rd) Edition, selected and edited by Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott. | | | Reprinted in Penguin paperback (1978); the print is perhaps even larger. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/spenser.htm
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| | Edmund Spenser, by William Oram, a comprehensive treatment of The Faeirie Queene and Spenser's other poetry. |
| | Edmund Spenser, by William Oram, the first comprehensive introduction to Spenser's work since 1963, places his epic, The Fairie Queene, in the context of his shorter works and gives those works extended treatment. | | | Edmund Spenser, by William Oram, a comprehensive treatment of The Faeirie Queene and Spenser's other poetry. | | | This site uses frames and is best viewed using web viewers from 1993 such as Netscape 2.0, or later versions. |
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http://sophia.smith.edu/~woram
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| | Edmund Spenser Home Page |
| | This page will seek to collect any and all Net materials pertaining to the life and works of Edmund Spenser. | | | Richard Bear at the University of Oregon is the current page author. | | | See also entries under Spenser, Edmund in the catalog of the |
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http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/english/EVOLVING_CANON/EC_TEXT_FILES/spenser.html
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| | Edmund Spenser World Bibliography |
| | We also encourage authors of material on Spenser to provide references to items missed by the journal and to send us abstracts of items that were never annotated. | | | We often handle collections of articles similarly, naming each essay on Spenser at the point in the original review where it was discussed and then printing the reviewer's remarks on it as a separate entry under the author's name. | | | Most abbreviations have been expanded and cross-references and citations of Spenser's works have been normalized. |
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http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/spenser/about.html
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| | Edmund Spenser |
| | See the complete Amoretti (1595) and Sonnets by Spenser from Various Sources at the University of Oregon's helpful Edmund Spenser Home Page. | | | Which hold my life in their dead doing might, |
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http://www.sonnets.org/spenser.htm
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