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Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599) ; Mitford, John [ed]Biblio.com

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser complete in five volumes

1852réf. 456017London : William Pickering 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copies all in full gilt-blocked green aniline calf boards with inner gilt dentelles and all edges gilt. Faintly scuffed covers slightly rubbed along the board edges. Spines somewhat more worn with minor cracks at joint ends; bottom two compartments lifting on v.1 and top compartment pivoting on rear joint. Marble endpapers; contemporary owner's autograph to flyleaves. Tight bright and clean internally with surprisingly sharp corners. A remarkably well-preserved and complete set. Series; The Aldine edition of the British poets. Physical description; complete in 5 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm. Notes; This edition originally published 1839. Includes a life of the poet by John Mitford. Contents; v. 1. Introductory sonnets ; The life of Edmund Spenser / by the Rev. J. Mitford ; The faerie queene. Author's preliminaries ; Book I-II -- v. 2. The faerie queene. Book II continued-IV -- v. 3. The faerie queene. Book IV continued-VI -- v. 4. The faerie queene. Book VI continued ; Miscellanies. Colin Clouts come home againe ; Virgils gnat ; The shepheards calendar : containing twelve aeglogues proportionable to the twelve months -- v. 5. Fowre hymnes ; Three visions ; Prosopoia or Mother Hubbafds tale ; Prothalamoin or A spousall verse ; Epithalamion ; Poems ; Amoretti or sonnets ; Daphnaida ; The doleful lay of Clorinda ; The mourning music of Thestylis ; A pastoral eglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney ; An elegie or Friends passion for his Astrophil ; An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney ; Another of the same ; The teares of the Muses ; The ruines of Rome ; The ruines of time ; Muipotmos or The fate of the butterflie ; Brittain's Ida. Subjects; English poetry - Early modern 1500-1700. London : William Pickering hardcover

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Edmund Spenser; Edited by Henry John ToddBiblio.com

The Works of Edmund Spenser In Eight Volumes With the Principal Illustrations of Various Commentators. To Which are Added Notes Some Account of the Life of Spenser and A Glossarial and Other Indexes by the Reverend Henry John Todd

1805réf. SET25-F-4London : F. C. and J. Rivington 1805. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5";. None. A set of the poetical works of Edmund Spenser widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Containing all his best-known poetry including The Faerie Queen April and Astrophel. Spenser's masterpiece is an extensive poem The Faerie Queene. The first three books of The Faerie Queene were published in 1590 and a second set of three books were published in 1596. This extended epic poem deals with the adventures of knights dragons ladies in distress etc. yet it is also an extended allegory about the moral life and what makes for a life of virtue. With engraved frontispiece of Spenser to Volume I. Spenser was called a Poet's Poet and was admired by William Wordsworth John Keats Lord Byron and Alfred Lord Tennyson among others. The language of his poetry is purposely archaic reminiscent of earlier works such as The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer and Il Canzoniere of Francesco Petrarca whom Spenser greatly admired. Spenser's Epithalamion is the most admired of its type in the English language. It was written for his wedding to his young bride Elizabeth Boyle. The poem consists of 365 long lines corresponding to the days of the year; 68 short lines representing the sum of the 52 weeks 12 months and 4 seasons of the annual cycle; and 24 stanzas corresponding to the diurnal and sidereal hours. Complete in eight volumes. Rebound in half-morocco bindings with marbled boards and original spine labels. Externally smart with some minor wear to the spines and some sunfading to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Institutional stamps to recto of front free-endpaper. Pages are spotted with some foxing throughout. Very Good F. C. and J. Rivington hardcover

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Spenser EdmundBiblio.com

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

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis654,50 $US≈ 583,59 €

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