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Informationen zum Autor Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) was educated in London and Cambridge and in 1580 moved to Ireland as secretary to the Lord Deputy. His poem, The Faerie Queene, was the first English epic. Richard McCabe is a Fellow in English at Merton College Oxford and a lecturer at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on Renaissance Literature. Edited by Richard A. McCabe Klappentext Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene! this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility! his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex metrical forms. The range of this volume allows him to emerge fully in the varied and conflicting personae he adopted! as satirist and eulogist! elegist and lover! polemicist and prophet. The volume includes The Shepeardes Calender! Complaints! and A Theatre for Wordlings. For more than seventy years! Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1!700 titles! Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors! as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung Although he is most famous for "The Faerie Queene", this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. It includes "The Shepeardes Calender", "Complaints", and "A Theatre for Wordlings". Inhaltsverzeichnis The Shorter PoemsIllustrations Chronology Introduction From A Theatre for Worldlings Epigrams Sonets The Shepheardes Calender Januarye Februarie March Aprill Maye June Julye August September October Nouember December From Letters (1580) Complaints The Ruines of Time The Teares of the Muses Virgils Gnat Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale Ruines of Rome: by Bellay Mviopotmos Visions of the Worlds Vanitie The Visions of Bellay The Visions of Petrarch Daphnaïda Colin Clovts Come Home Againe Colin Clovts Come Home Againe Astrophel Dolefull Lay of Clorinda Amoretti and Epithalamion Amoretti Anacreontics Epithalamion Fowre Hymnes An Hymne in Honovr of Love An Hymne in Honovr of Beavtie An Hymne of Heavenly Love An Hymne of Heavenly Beavtie Prothalamion Commendatory Sonnets Attributed Verses Notes; Abbreviations Glossary of Common Terms Textual Apparatus Further Reading ...
