Edmund Spenser: A Critical Study

The foremost poet of his time, Spenser (b. 1552), was not only a master of meter and language but a profound moral poet also. This book consists of the following chapters: Edmund Spenser: An Overview; “Wise Handling and Faire Governance”: Spenser’s Female Educators; A ‘Goodlie Bridge’ Between the Old and the New: The Transformation of Complaint in Spenser’s The Ruines of Time; Translated Geographies: Edmund Spenser’s “The Ruines of Time”; Spenser and the Culture of Place; Women’s Friendship and the Refusal of Lesbian Desire in the Spenser’s Faierie Queene on Kyd’ Spanish Tragedy; “In Sort as She it Sung”: Spenser’s Doleful Lay” and the Construction of Female Authorship; the Faerie Queene among the Disciplines; etc. This book will prove highly useful and informative to all concerned.