Edmund Spenser:

Hadfield, Andrew

Edmund Spenser: a life - Oxford University Press 2012 - xxi, 624 p., [24] p. of plates

Includes bibliographical references and index

Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'. In this vivid biography - the first for 60 years - Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser.

9780199591022 0199591024


Spenser 1552?-1599 Edmund


Poets, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography

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