Edmund Spenser: a life
by Hadfield, Andrew; Spenser, Edmund.
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BookPublisher: Oxford University Press 2012ISBN: 9780199591022; 0199591024.Classification number: 821.3 SPESubject(s): Spenser 1552?-1599 | Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- BiographySubject: 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.
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| 821.3 DON The complete poems of John Donne: | 821.3 SHA Sonnets and other poems | 821.3 SHA Reading Shakespeare's sonnets: a new commentary | 821.3 SPE Edmund Spenser: | 821.4 HER Robert Herrick | 821.4 MAR Andrew Marvell | 821.4 MIL Paradise lost |
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.
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