Edmund Spenser
Subtitle: a life
By: Andrew Hadfield
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, Oxon, Eng; [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780199591022
Subjects: English Poets; Biography
Description: "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-606) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Writing the life; title: Origins and childhood; title: Spenser goes to college; title: Lost years; title: Annus Mirabilis; title: To Ireland I; title: Spenser's castle; title: Back to England; title: 1591; title: More lost years and second marriage, 1592-5; title: Return to London, 1596-7; title: Last years, 1597-9; title: Afterword; title: Appendix 1: Spenser's descendants; title: Appendix 2: Portraits of Spenser; title: Appendix 3: Spenser's lives.