San Antonio College Library

"All Spenser's work, including the minor poems and the prose View of Ireland, is examined. There are chapters on The Shepheardes Calender, the Complaints poems, the great love and religious poetry of 1595-6 and the Faerie Queene. The author illustrates the range of Spenser's imaginative and poetic skills in pastoral, elegy, lyric, satire, sonnet, ode, epithalamium, religious ode and epic, and shows why he was the most popular of Elizabethan poets."...

A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies provides a guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate. The book covers key topics (such as politics and gender) and provides reception histories for all the primary texts. Across thirteen chapters, some of today's most prominent Spenser scholars offer accounts of debates on the poet, from the Renaissance to the present day. Plot summaries, generous quotations and a jargon-free style help to make...

This 1967 book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

"Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original essays on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never before been treated systematically; and the linguistic borrowings lead to broader-scale borrowings and influences which are treated here. An additional feature of the book...