Concerned primarily with The Faerie Oueene, to which the extensive bibliog­raphy is devoted, these original essays constitute an important statement on twentie

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This book considers four centuries of Spenser criticism, locating critics in ongoing discussions of Spenser's poetry and the cultural contexts of their time.

The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

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