"Despite its canonical prestige, Edmund Spenser's epic six-part poem The Faerie Queene (1590-96) has never been easy or altogether pleasurable to read. As this

This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication

The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized

"The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.

How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers fr