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Edmund Spenser's Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) Paperback – August 21, 2013

by Edmund Spenser (Author), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Andrew Hadfield (Editor)
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Edmund Spenser’s Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.

This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section.

This new edition addresses the shifts in scholarly and critical interests in Spenser studies since 1993 as well as access provided by new technology. Notes reflect the information that Spenser’s best readers would have at their fingertips without spoiling the pleasure of reading Spenser for the first time. Mother Hubberds Tale from the 1591 Complaints is newly included. The Ruines of Rome, Spenser’s translation of Joachim Du Bellay’s Antiquitez, is also added to give readers the chance to see Spenser at work as a translator and to give the English perspective on Rome. Sixteen critical essays have been added to supplement fourteen earlier commentaries. Among the perspectives new to the Fourth Edition are those of C. S Lewis, Martha Craig, Gordon Teskey, Jeff Dolven, David Wilson-Okamura, and Jennifer Summit.

In keeping with the last edition, critical pieces on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped together to facilitate classroom discussion. New selections from Jane Grogan, Andrew D. Hadfield, Colin Burrow, Lynn Staley, Lauren Silberman, and A. E. B. Coldiron join the readings on House of Busyrane, and “Amoretti” grows with selections by A. Leigh DeNeef and Helena Mennie Shire.

A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.
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    5.7 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393927857
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0393927856
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Anne Lake Prescott is Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she was recently chair. A Columbia Ph.D., she has also taught in the Columbia graduate department. She is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance: Studies in Fame and Transformation, many articles on Renaissance literature, and ten contributions to The Spenser Encyclopedia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Fourth edition (August 21, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 896 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393927857
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393927856
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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  • Donna M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great price on a great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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    This was much cheaper than my school bookstore and is an excellent book! Love Spenser!
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  • Michael Birman
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most helpful editions for reading Spenser's beautiful but difficult poetry
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015
    I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on Spenser so he's a poet for whom I have great deal of affection. But that affection is often tempered with a significant degree of frustration that occasionally transforms itself into anger. There are poets - I am excluding the moderns who are often opaque because history has deemed it so and that is the nature of modern verse - whose poetry is willfully obscure: John Donne is the best example of a great poet who is often maddeningly difficult and whose sense is often hidden behind a dense fog of metaphors and symbols. Reading Donne requires a well annotated edition in order to fully grasp his craggy, difficult verse. William Blake is another example of an elusive, demanding poet whose verse weaves between simplicity and an impenetrable, self-created mythos that suggests other worlds of being. Even though Spenser is a superb poet for whom the desire to be read and understood is paramount, he can still drive a reader up the wall because of the nature of his poetry. Spenser adopted a deliberately archaic style, suggesting the verse of older poets like Chaucer. He is not above using an obscure, self-created vocabulary if he feels that it's the best way of communicating his multidimensional ideas.

    Those ideas reflect poetry that can be allegorical, philosophical with a Platonic cast, metaphorical with a shimmering, iridescent jewel curtain of beautiful archaic words that can play hide-and-seek with the reader, and expository with a novelist's love of narrative. These traits are all part of Spenser's "olde kit bag" and it is up to the reader to approach his poetry with multiple weapons at hand. Longman's Annotated Spenser: The Faerie Queene edited by the Spenserian scholar A.C.Hamilton is the best single edition of that masterpiece. Where this fourth iteration of the Norton Critical Edition of Spenser's poetry really shines is in its reasonably compendious overview of his work, as well as in its absolutely superb collection of critical essays filling more than 150 pages at the rear of the book. Featuring scholars and writers as diverse as C.S.Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bart Giamatti and Northrop Frye, the essays are excellent and cover the entire gamut of Spenser's output. I found that a quick run through of the poetry followed by studying the appropriate essay and then re-reading the poetry is the best method of understanding and absorbing Spenser. His archaic style seems to melt away when you've prepared yourself in this way.

    Spenser is a great poet. His poetry is deep, beautiful and immortal. It can be difficult to read and understand but his genius makes a little preparation more than worthwhile. Reading him slowly is another suggestion to ease understanding. Once you develop a taste for his poetry, you create a bond with Spenser that is quite unique amongst all of the poets I've read. Maybe it's the initial frustration and all the hard work you put in to grasp his exquisitely textured poetry. Maybe it's the sheer sonic and visual beauty of his language. Whatever the reason is, a little effective help will forge that bond much quicker. This Norton Critical Edition of Spenser's Poetry is a superb tool to help you read some of the finest verse ever written. The quality of Spenser's poetry argues that it should be better known. Meet him halfway. He's that good.
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  • Marina T
    4.0 out of 5 stars Needed it for English class
    Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016
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    I won't be able to say I adored the text. With all apologies to my professor, Spenser's longer poetry isn't really my cup of tea.

    But I can say that the footnotes themselves are generally helpful, and the critical pieces similarly add to a more nuanced understanding of the text. Definitely a helpful class aid if not an already required text for English courses.
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  • David V
    3.0 out of 5 stars caveat emptor: Only contains half of the Shepheardes Calender
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015
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    The decision to include as much of the Faerie Queene as they did at the expense of not including the complete Shepheardes Calender is strange a strange one, given how easy it is to find a complete and high quality edition of TFQ compared to TSC.
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  • Lauren Pilcher
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  • HouseLover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Scholarly Volume
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 22, 2017
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    Excellent edition for scholarly work. I'm a postgraduate, and there are some wonderful critical essays from both Spenser's period and more recently. If you're studying his Faerie Queene, this volume also contains other works by him which I'm sure will enrich that study.
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  • Kindle Customer
    1.0 out of 5 stars Damaged book
    Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2024
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    The back cover was ripped and the book was damaged. Not great considering it was purchased new.
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  • Steven Riley
    5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of “Fairie Queen”
    Reviewed in Australia on January 11, 2022
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    The usual excellence from Norton Critical Editions - expertly edited primary texts, detailed and helpful glosses and notes, excellent range of secondary and critical material. But you should be aware that there is a lot of “Fairie Queen” in this edition, although the Amazon description fails to mention this. Hence you won’t necessarily need to buy a separate copy of “Fairie Queen”.
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