Edmund Spencer

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work from early literary experiments such as <i>The Shepeardes Calenda</i>r to his unfinished crowning work <i>The Fairie Queene</i>. The introduction provides an overview of critical responses to Spenser setting his work and the debates which it has generated in their perspective contexts: new historicist post-structural psychoanalytic and feminist. His study also covers the critical responses of leading British Irish and American scholars.<br>