This revised and enlarged fourth edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed and carefully annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section. This new edition addresses the shifts in scholarly and[...]
This revised and enlarged third edition of "Edmund Spenser's Poetry" now contains more of "The Faerie Queen" than previous editions. It offers "Amoretti" as a complete work, and "Colin Clouts Comes Home Againe" is now included. Seventeen new critical essays have been added, including one by Spenser'[...]
Recounts the quests of certain knights as they struggled to achieve specific virtues, including stories that involve dragons, witches, and enchanted mirrors, in a work that was dedicated to Elizabeth I.[...]
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; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'-- a man on the make w[...]
Over 300 neo-medieval illustrations and decorations created by famed Victorian-era artist to illustrate a sumptuous limited edition of Spenser''s 16th-century epic poem. Full-page plates, headpieces, tailpieces, borders, vignettes and decorative elements depict knights, maidens, dragons, unicorns, a[...]
The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spense[...]
Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War. Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being force[...]