Dimensions
130 x 197 x 18mm
A Selection.
To Keats, Spenser was above all a sensuous poet, the creator of a timeless dreamlike otherworld of such imaginative abundance and musicality that its experience was akin to an erotic pleasure. He was the national poet who announced the great age of Elizabethan poetry with the publication of 'The Shepherds' Calendar'. Learned, playful, political, poetical, this twelve-part poem builds to an understanding of the breadth and instability of love. By the time of 'Colin Clout's Come Home Again', private and public love seem on the point of unravelling, while 'Amoretti And Epithalamion' celebrates the private joys and fears of a courtship and wedding day which the reader is invited to identify as Spenser's own.
This major new selection brings together Spenser's most important shorter poems, providing the modern reader with the ideal introduction to this most rewarding of Elizabethan poets. It includes an introduction, maps, chronology, glossary and extensive notes.
