Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
Autor von The Faerie Queene
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"The poet's poet"---as Charles Lamb was to call Spenser two centuries later---was born in London, where he attended school before going to Cambridge in 1569. About 1579 he came to know Sir Philip Sidney; his first significant work, The Shepheardes Calendar, published under a pseudonym in 1579 and mehr anzeigen consisting of 12 "ecologues" (one for each month of the year), was dedicated to Sidney. Spenser hoped for advancement at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but in August 1580 he took a minor position in Ireland, where he spent the rest of his life, save for two visits to England. In 1594 he married Elizabeth Boyle, in Cork; the sonnet sequence Amoretti (1595) bears on his courtship, and the great marriage hymn, Epithalamion (1595), celebrates the wedding. The first three books of Spenser's allegorical epic romance,The Faerie Queene, appeared in 1590; three more appeared in 1596. A fragment, the Cantos of Mutabilitie, which may or may not have been intended to form part of the great poem, appeared in 1609, after Spenser's death. Spenser appended a letter to his friend Sir Walter Raleigh to the edition of 1590, explaining that the "general end...of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Although Spenser planned to write 12 books in all, only 6, and the two Cantos of Mutabilitie, survive. The rest may possibly have been destroyed by Irish rebels when, in 1598, they sacked Spenser's Irish residence at Kilcolman, but it is equally possible that the poet never managed to bring his massively planned work to completion. Spenser's Amoretti (1595) is one of the more idealized sonnet sequences, and Colin Clout's Come Home Again (1595) is an allegorical attack on the taste of the court. Like many Renaissance authors, his writings extend beyond the narrowly literary; his tract "A View of the Present State of Ireland" (1596) provides a series of brutal recommendations for the colonial suppression of England's Irish territories. Spenser's complex range of styles and genres served as both a model and a challenge for his contemporaries and for later authors. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Books I and II of The Faerie Queene: The Mutability Cantos and Selections from the Minor Poetry (1968) 193 Exemplare
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, 2nd Edition 64 Exemplare
The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898) (1579) 44 Exemplare
The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selection (Everyman) 21 Exemplare
Saint George and the Dragon: Being The Legend of the Red Cross Knight from The Faerie Queene (1963) 20 Exemplare
Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 16) (2012) 9 Exemplare
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spencer. Edited for Popular Perusal, with… (1874) 9 Exemplare
Epithalamion 8 Exemplare
Spenser: The Faerie Queene 8 Exemplare
Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First 7 Exemplare
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. v. 6. The Faerie Qveene Books 6 & 7 (1958) 6 Exemplare
The Complete Works of Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene, Prothalamion, Foure Hymnes, Amoretti and Epithalamion and More… (2013) 4 Exemplare
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The works of Edmund Spenser. Volume V 1 Exemplar
The works of Edmund Spenser. Volume III 1 Exemplar
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Works of Edmund Spenser. Volume I 1 Exemplar
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Sonnet 75 1 Exemplar
Britomart, from Books III, IV, and V of the Feary queene.: Edited, with introduction and notes by Mary E. Litchfield. (2009) 1 Exemplar
Selected Poems 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queene Coronation Edition 1 Exemplar
The Lyric Poems of Edmund Spenser 1 Exemplar
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book II [of II] — Autor — 1 Exemplar
A concordance to the sonnet sequence of Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser (1969) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Pitt Press Series; The Faerie Queene. Book 1 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queen Book One 1 Exemplar
Second part of The faerie queene 1 Exemplar
The Lansdowne Poets: Notes, Memoir &c. 1 Exemplar
Daphnaida and Othe Poems 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queene, etc 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queene: Books I-VI 1 Exemplar
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: From the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. With the Life of Author. Volume 2 (1999) 1 Exemplar
Perigot and Willie's Roundelay (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 Exemplar
Sonnet 1 Exemplar
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, vol. v 1 Exemplar
The Works of Edmund Spenser, with a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators, and a Glossarial Index, to which is… (1856) 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queene: Maynard's English Classic Series #27 with Explanatory Notes. (27) (1892) 1 Exemplar
The Great Transition 1 Exemplar
The works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 4 1 Exemplar
The works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 5 1 Exemplar
A Spenser Handbook. 1 Exemplar
The Works of Spencer 1 Exemplar
The poems of Edmund Spencer : selected 1 Exemplar
Astrophell 1 Exemplar
Spenser (The Laurel Poetry Series) 1 Exemplar
Selected Writings (Routledge English Texts) 1 Exemplar
The Histories 1 Exemplar
So Oft as I Her Beauty to Behold (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 Exemplar
Edmund Spenser: A Collection of His Works 1 Exemplar
THE SQUIRE OF LOW DEGREE - Book 4 from the Stories of the Faerie Queene: Stories of the Faerie Queene - Book 4 (2018) 1 Exemplar
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves 1 Exemplar
An Original Canto of Spencer: Design'd as Part of His Fairy Queen, But Never Printed (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 Exemplar
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 2: The Shepheards Calender and Glosse, 1597; With Various… (2017) 1 Exemplar
The Faerie Queen, Book I D5 1 Exemplar
Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 Exemplar
One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 Exemplar
the selected poetry of Spencer 1 Exemplar
The Poetical Works. Edited From The Best Editions. With Memoir, Notes, Glossary, &C. (1883) 1 Exemplar
Spencer's poetical works 1 Exemplar
Poems: “Amoretti” and “Prothalamion” 1 Exemplar
The approach to Spenser 1 Exemplar
Works of Spenser, 5vols 1 Exemplar
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(The Making of a Poem) By Strand, Mark (Author) paperback on (04 , 2001) (2000) — Mitwirkender — 1,254 Exemplare
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Mitwirkender — 1,042 Exemplare
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Mitwirkender — 447 Exemplare
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons (2012) — Mitwirkender — 278 Exemplare
English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson (1963) — Mitwirkender — 158 Exemplare
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare
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