The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Spenser, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434453 ISBN 13: 9780140434453

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

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.

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About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

Ruines Of Rome
The Visions Of Bellay
Epigram: 1
The Visions Of Petrarch [formerly Translated]
Visions: 2
Visions: 3
Visions: 4
Visions: 5
Visions: 6
Amoretti (complete)
Astrophel
Colin Clouts Come Home Again
Couplet
Cupid
Daphnaida
Distich
Epigram: 7
Epithalamion
An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
An Hymn In Honour Of Love
An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
An Hymn Of Heavenly Love
I Was Promised On A Time
Iambicum Trimetrum, Fr. Letter To Harvey
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie
Prosopopoia, Or Mother Hubberds Tale
Prothalamion
The Ruines Of Time
The Shepheardes Calender: April
The Shepheardes Calender: August
The Shepheardes Calender: Conclusion
The Shepheardes Calender: December
The Shepheardes Calender: Dedicatory Sonnet
The Shepheardes Calender: February
The Shepheardes Calender: January
The Shepheardes Calender: July
The Shepheardes Calender: June
The Shepheardes Calender: March
The Shepheardes Calender: May
The Shepheardes Calender: November
The Shepheardes Calender: October
The Shepheardes Calender: September
Sonet: 1
Sonet: 10
Sonet: 11
Sonet: 12
Sonet: 13
Sonet: 14
Sonet: 15
Sonet: 2
Sonet: 3
Sonet: 4
Sonet: 5
Sonet: 6
Sonet: 7
Sonet: 8
Sonet: 9
Sonnet Prefixed To 'nennio, Or A Treatise Of Nobility'
Sonnet Prefixed To 'the Commonwealth & Government Of Venice'
Sonnet To Master Gabriell Harvey, Doctor Of Lawes
Sonnet Upon Historie Of George Castriot, Alias Scanderberg
The Teares Of The Muses
Verses Upon The Said Earles Lute
Virgils Gnat
Virgils Gnat: Dedicatory Sonnet
Visions Of The Worlds Vanitie
Amoretti: Dedication. G.w. Senior, To The Author
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140434453
• ISBN 13: 9780140434453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816
• Editor: Mccabe Richard A.