Spenser

THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER Viz. The Faerie Queene Colin Clouts Come Home AgaineVirgil's GnatThe Epistle Fowre Hymnes Three Visions Bittain's Ida and The Shepherds Calendar Whereunto is Added An Account of His Life

1839réf. 35090London: William Pickering 1839. 5 volumes. Early Printing published for the Aldine Edition of the English Poets. With an engraved frontispiece of Spenser by Fox. 8vo handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper covered boards the joins gilt ruled the spine panels with raised bands gilt stopped the compartments richly gilt in fully tooled panels between the bands top edge gilt marbled endleaves. lxxiv 282; vi 295; vi 296; vi 305vi 317 1 pp. A handsomely bound set of this fine edition of Spenser's Poetical Works the bindings tight and strong the text-blocks in pleasing condition a clean set and excellent for the bindings for reading or study. A VERY PLEASING COLLECTION OF THE POETRY OF ONE OF ENGLAND’S GREATEST LITERARY MASTERS Edmund Spenser who stands with the likes of William Shakespeare and John Milton in the history of English poetry. Spenser was known to his contemporaries as "the prince of poets” and was said by them to be "as great in English as Virgil in Latin”. He was greatly preferred over Shakespeare by Queen Elizabeth and many others of the day. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry from pastoral and elegy to epithalamion and epic. A century later John Milton would call Spenser "a better teacher than Aquinas” and was greatly influenced by him. Since then generations of readers have admired his subtle use of language his imagination his immense classical and religious learning and "his unerring ability to synthesize and ultimately to delight”. This is the handsomely bound Pickering printing of Spenser’s great works. THE FAERIE QUEEN is Spenser’s best known work and arguably his best. It is especially notable for its form: it was the first work written in what is now called Spenserian stanza and is also one of the longest poems in the English language. An allegorical work written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I it is largely symbolic the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. It found not surprisingly great political favour with Elizabeth I and was such a public success that it quickly became Spenser's defining work. The last six books of the twelve Spenser intended were never written though two cantos noted as the Seventh and Eighth Bookes appear here. William Pickering hardcover

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