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Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)

Autor/a de The Faerie Queene

207+ obres 6,232 Membres 43 Ressenyes 21 preferits

Sobre l'autor

"The poet's poet"---as Charles Lamb was to call Spenser two centuries later---was born in London, where he attended school before going to Cambridge in 1569. About 1579 he came to know Sir Philip Sidney; his first significant work, The Shepheardes Calendar, published under a pseudonym in 1579 and mostra'n més consisting of 12 "ecologues" (one for each month of the year), was dedicated to Sidney. Spenser hoped for advancement at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but in August 1580 he took a minor position in Ireland, where he spent the rest of his life, save for two visits to England. In 1594 he married Elizabeth Boyle, in Cork; the sonnet sequence Amoretti (1595) bears on his courtship, and the great marriage hymn, Epithalamion (1595), celebrates the wedding. The first three books of Spenser's allegorical epic romance,The Faerie Queene, appeared in 1590; three more appeared in 1596. A fragment, the Cantos of Mutabilitie, which may or may not have been intended to form part of the great poem, appeared in 1609, after Spenser's death. Spenser appended a letter to his friend Sir Walter Raleigh to the edition of 1590, explaining that the "general end...of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Although Spenser planned to write 12 books in all, only 6, and the two Cantos of Mutabilitie, survive. The rest may possibly have been destroyed by Irish rebels when, in 1598, they sacked Spenser's Irish residence at Kilcolman, but it is equally possible that the poet never managed to bring his massively planned work to completion. Spenser's Amoretti (1595) is one of the more idealized sonnet sequences, and Colin Clout's Come Home Again (1595) is an allegorical attack on the taste of the court. Like many Renaissance authors, his writings extend beyond the narrowly literary; his tract "A View of the Present State of Ireland" (1596) provides a series of brutal recommendations for the colonial suppression of England's Irish territories. Spenser's complex range of styles and genres served as both a model and a challenge for his contemporaries and for later authors. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: H.W. Smith

Obres de Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene (1590) 2,546 exemplars
The Faerie Queene, Book One (1590) 624 exemplars
The Faerie Queene, Volume 1 (1590) 145 exemplars
Selected poetry (1956) 91 exemplars
The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser (1908) — Autor — 88 exemplars
The works of Edmund Spenser (1904) 76 exemplars
The Faerie Queene, Book Five (2001) 46 exemplars
The Faerie Queene, Volume 2 (1590) 39 exemplars
A View of the State of Ireland (1633) 38 exemplars
Amoretti and Epithalamion (1973) 30 exemplars
The Elfin Knight (2010) 26 exemplars
Edmund Spenser Selected Poetry (1964) 25 exemplars
Edmund Spenser's Poetry (1968) 24 exemplars
Stories from the faerie queene (1911) 22 exemplars
Spenser's Minor Poems (1910) 22 exemplars
The Poems of Spenser (1936) 21 exemplars
Shorter Poems: A Selection (1998) 17 exemplars
Prothalamion : Epithalamion (1902) 13 exemplars
Amoretti (1973) 12 exemplars
Epithalamion 8 exemplars
The Mutabilitie Cantos (1968) 7 exemplars
Complaints (1970) 5 exemplars
Spenser's prose works (2002) 5 exemplars
Prothalamion [poem] (1937) 3 exemplars
SPENCER Poetical Works (1912) 3 exemplars
Daphnaida, and Other Poems (2004) 3 exemplars
The works of Spenser (2012) 3 exemplars
The Fowre Hymns (1971) 3 exemplars
The shepheardes calender (1985) 3 exemplars
Ballads of Books 2 exemplars
The Faery Queen (2010) 2 exemplars
The Poems of Spenser — Autor — 2 exemplars
Stories from Spenser (2014) 2 exemplars
Poems 2 exemplars
The Faerie Queene (2020) 1 exemplars
Sonnet 75 1 exemplars
The Faery Queene, Book 1 (2012) 1 exemplars
Selected Poems 1 exemplars
Spencer Selected Poetry (1970) 1 exemplars
Sonnet 1 exemplars
A Spenser Handbook. 1 exemplars
Astrophell 1 exemplars
The Histories 1 exemplars

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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (1992) — Col·laborador — 285 exemplars
From the Tower Window (My Book House) (1932) — Col·laborador — 264 exemplars
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Col·laborador — 189 exemplars
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Col·laborador — 158 exemplars
Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (1969) — Col·laborador — 122 exemplars
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Col·laborador — 114 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Dragons (2021) — Col·laborador — 110 exemplars
The Norton Book of Friendship (1991) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
A Book of Narrative Verse (1930) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
The Faber Book of Gardens (2007) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Modern Arthurian Literature (1992) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Masters of British Literature, Volume A (2007) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Renaissance in England (1966) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Classic Hymns & Carols (2012) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Fairy Poems (2023) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Weirdies, Weirdies, Weirdies (1975) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Thames: An Anthology of River Poems (1999) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

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6,232
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