Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)

by Spenser, Edmund; Maclean, Hugh; Prescott, Anne Lake

• ISBN13: 9780393962994
• ISBN10: 0393962997
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene : from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie." Colin Clouts Come Home Againe , increasingly a focus of critical attention, is an important addition, and Amoretti is offered in its entirety. Seventeen critical essays, judiciously chosen from the many published since 1982, have been added to supplement eleven earlier commentaries. New to the Third Edition are the perspectives of Spenser's contemporary William Camden, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson, Richard Helgerson, Louis Adrian Montrose, and David Lee Miller. The critical essays on the House of Busyrane , Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos , and Amoretti are grouped to "speak" to each other in ways sure to stimulate classroom discussion. This class-tested feature is back by popular demand along with essays by D. C. Allen, Robert A. Brinkley, Ronald P. Bond, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew D. Weiner, Susanne Lindgren Wofford, Harry Berger, Jr., and Paul Alpers. A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
The Texts of the Poems
The Faerie Queene	xvii
A Letter of the Authors	1	(4)
Book I	5	(157)
From Book II	162	(69)
Book III	231	(170)
From Book IV	401	(2)
From Book V	403	(10)
From Book VI	413	(48)
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie	461	(30)
Editors' Note	491	(9)
From The Shepheardes Calender	500	(46)
To His Booke	500	(1)
["E.K."] · [Dedicatory Epistle to The Shepheardes Calender]	501	(5)
Januarye	506	(3)
Februarie	509	(8)
Aprill	517	(7)
October	524	(6)
November	530	(7)
December	537	(5)
[Envoy]	542	(1)
Editors' Note	542	(4)
Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie	546	(14)
Editors' Note	557	(3)
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe	560	(27)
Editors' Note	582	(5)
Amoretti and Epithalamion	587	(56)
Amoretti	587	(36)
[Anacreontics]	623	(3)
Epithalamion	626	(11)
Editors' Note	637	(6)
Prothalamion	643	(7)
Editors' Note	648	(2)
Textual Notes	650	(11)
Criticism	661	(162)
EARLY CRITICAL VIEWS	661	(11)
William Camden
[The Death of Spenser]	661	(1)
John Hughes
[Remarks on The Faerie Queene and The Shepheardes Calender]	661	(7)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[Spenser's Art]	668	(4)
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRITICISM	672	(151)
Virginia Woolf
The Faery Queen	672	(3)
Richard Helgerson
[The New Poet Presents Himself]	675	(11)
Louis Adrian Montrose
[The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text]	686	(9)
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Pageant, Show, and Verse	695	(10)
Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
[The Elizabethan Idea of Allegory]	705	(2)
Northrop Frye
The Structure of Imagery in The Faerie Queene	707	(9)
A. C. Hamilton
[The Cosmic Image: Spenser and Dante]	716	(10)
Judith H. Anderson
"A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine": The Chaucerian Connection	726	(6)
S. K. Heninger, Jr.
[Orgoglio]	732	(9)
Readings of the House of Busyrane	741	(11)
Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
[Love, Lust, and Sexuality]	741	(2)
A. Kent Hieatt
[Sexual Adventurism]	743	(3)
Susanne Lindgren Wofford
[The Bold Reader in the House of Busyrane]	746	(6)
Humphrey Tonkin
[Pastorella and the Graces]	752	(4)
David Lee Miller
Spenser and the Gaze of Glory	756	(8)
Donald Cheney
The Titaness Put Down	764	(5)
Views of Pastoral	769	(27)
Isabel MacCaffrey
[The Shepheardes Calender]	769	(9)
Harry Berger, Jr.
["The Paradise Principle": Approaches to The Shepheardes Calender]	778	(9)
Paul Alpers
[Spenser's Domain of Lyric]	787	(9)
Muiopotmos: A Mini-Casebook	796	(8)
D. C. Allen
[The Butterfly-Soul]	796	(2)
Ronald B. Bond
[The Workings of Envy]	798	(2)
Robert A. Brinkley
[The Politics of Metamorphosis]	800	(2)
Andrew D. Weiner
[Butterflies, Men, and the Narrator in Muiopotmos]	802	(2)
Amoretti	804	(9)
Louis Martz
[Amoretti]	804	(5)
Anne Lake Prescott
[Allegorical Deer and Amoretti 67]	809	(4)
William Nelson
[Hobgoblin and Apollo's Garland]	813	(10)
A Chronology of Spenser's Life	823	(2)
Selected Bibliography	825