Cover of Spenser's life and the subject of biography

Spenser's life and the subject of biography

by David A. Richardson, Judith H. Anderson, Donald Cheney

1996 215 pages eng

On the 400th anniversary of The Faerie Queene, this book challenges the received tradition of Spenser's biography. The first "life" of Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99) was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy, and anxiety. Over succeeding centuries, readers have t…

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