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Edmund Spenser; ed. John Lee.
Shorter Poems: A Selection.
Published London: J. M. Dent, 1998.
Series: Everyman series.
ISBN 046087683X;
ISBN-13: 9780460876834.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: the Guernsey Press.
Size: 129×196×18mm.
Page count: xlii,272pp.
Main language: English; the main texts give marginal glosses for difficult words.
Overall condition good: these copies are unused, but are not shrink-wrapped so show some evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs etc. on the covers; pages somewhat yellowed with age.

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Weight without packaging: 224g.

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A selection of Spenser’s shorter poems which illustrate his unique poetic genius. When Spenser published The Shepherd’s Calendar in 1579 it announced the arrival of a rising star in the literary world and the dawn of the Great age of Elizabethan poetry. Although its dominant theme is pastoral, which had not previously been attempted in English, it is also political and deals frankly with the historical currents of Spenser’s era. Above all, it is a poem of unrequited love cleverly woven into the passage of the seasons. In Colin Clout’s Come Home Again, he writes of his own unhappy Irish odyssey and looks forward to Clout’s return to a literary Arcadia. Spenser’s loving eulogy to his new wife in Amoretti and Epithalamion is where he confirms his literary authority. The semi erotic Muiopotmos: Or the fate of the butterfly together with the lyrical Prothalamion complete this selection.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: 1

Appendix: Spenser & his critics.
Introduction: 22pp
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossaries: Words; Names
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: no

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