Edmund Spenser′s Poetry 4e: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Spenser, Edmund; Prescott, Anne Lake; Hadfield, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393927857 ISBN 13: 9780393927856

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

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 critical interests in Spenser studies since 1993 as well as access provided by new technology. Notes reflect the information that Spenser's best readers would have at their fingertips without spoiling the pleasure of reading Spenser for the first time. Mother Hubberds Tale from the 1591 Complaints is newly included., The Ruines of Rome, Spenser's translation of Joachim Du Bellay's Antiquitez, is also added to give readers the chance to see Spenser at work as a translator and to give the English perspective on Rome. Sixteen critical essays have been added to supplement fourteen earlier commentaries. Among the perspectives new to the Fourth Edition are those of C., S Lewis, Martha Craig, Gordon Teskey, Jeff Dolven, David Wilson-Okamura, and Jennifer Summit. In keeping with the last edition, critical pieces on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped together to facilitate classroom discussion. New selections from Jane Grogan, Andrew D., Hadfield, Colin Burrow, Lynn Staley, Lauren Silberman, and A. E. B., Coldiron join the readings on House of Busyrane, and "Amoretti" grows with selections by A. Leigh DeNeef and Helena Mennie Shire. A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.

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About the Author

Anne Lake Prescott is Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was recently chair. A Columbia Ph.D., she has also taught in the Columbia graduate department. She is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation, many articles on Renaissance literature, and ten contributions to The Spenser Encyclopedia.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393927857
• ISBN 13: 9780393927856
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 896