{"title":"Books by Edmund Spenser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780140422078","title":"The Faerie Queene","description":"\u003cb\u003e‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light\u003cbr\u003eLike Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch Duessa; Sir Guyon, Knight of Temperance, who escapes the Cave of Mammon and destroys Acrasia’s Bowre of Bliss; and the lady-knight Britomart’s search for her Sir Artegall, revealed to her in an enchanted mirror. Although composed as a moral and political allegory, \u003cb\u003eThe Faerie Queene’s\u003c\/b\u003e magical atmosphere captivated the imaginations of later poets from Milton to the Victorians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes the letter to Raleigh, in which Spenser declares his intentions for his poem, the commendatory verses by Spenser’s contemporaries and his dedicatory sonnets to the Elizabethan court, and is supplemented by a table of dates and a glossary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399041089714,"sku":"9780140422078","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140422078_b58d08de-635b-4a1e-8eec-b83f6dbe02c0.jpg?v=1786011365"},{"product_id":"9780393927856","title":"Edmund Spenser`s Poetry – A Norton Critical Edition","description":"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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288267534709,"sku":"9780393927856","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393927856_61c36316-d774-45ad-9b52-585e28301bb2.jpg?v=1786013859"},{"product_id":"9780872208551","title":"The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese paired Arthurian legends suggest that erotic desire and the desire for companionship undergird national politics. The maiden Britomart, Queen Elizabeth's fictional ancestor, dons armor to search for a man whom she has seen in a crystal ball. While on this quest, she seeks to understand how one can be chaste while pursuing a sexual goal, in love with a man while passionately attached to a woman, a warrior princess yet a wife. As Spenser's most sensitively developed character, Britomart is capable of heroic deeds but also of teenage self-pity. Her experience is anatomized in the stories of other characters, where versions of love and friendship include physical gratification, torture, mutual aid, competition, spiritual ecstasy, self-sacrifice, genial teasing, jealousy, abduction, wise government, sedition, and the valiant defense of a pig shed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311994581365,"sku":"9780872208551","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780872208551_c564ee0c-2628-4f6e-a06b-8ab46d3a291a.jpg?v=1786016153"},{"product_id":"the-faerie-queene-book-one","title":"The Faerie Queene, Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eFramed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e consists of a chivalric romance that has been made to a typical recipe--fierce warres and faithfull loves--but that has been Christianized in both overt and subtle ways. The physical and moral wanderings of the Redcrosse Knight dramatize his effort to find the proper proportion of human to divine contributions to salvation--a key issue between Protestants and Catholics. Fantastic elements like alien humans, humanoids, and monsters and their respective dwelling places are vividly described.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57494962307445,"sku":"9780872208070","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780872208070.jpg?v=1786614072"},{"product_id":"the-faerie-queene-book-six-and-the-mutabilitie-cantos","title":"The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Six and the incomplete Book Seven of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published.  They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying.  The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him.  Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there are moments of great beauty and harmony, such as the famous dance of the Graces that Colin Clout, the rustic alter ego of the poet himself, conjures up with his pipe.  Book Seven, the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, is among the finest of Spenser's poetic works, in which he explains the mythical origins of his world, as the gods debate on the hill opposite his Irish house.  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