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Spenser: The Faerie Queene (re-issue) (2nd Edition)
A C Hamilton
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Description for Spenser: The Faerie Queene (re-issue) (2nd Edition)
Paperback. Provides careful annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment, and introductory material setting the poem - The Faerie Queene - in its historical and literary context. This book also includes additional original material, which includes a chronology, a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses, and dedicatory sonnets. Editor(s): Hamilton, A. C. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 816 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 189 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1542.
The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s.
This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters ... Read more
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Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Longman Annotated English Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405832816
SKU
V9781405832816
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Ref
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About A C Hamilton
A C Hamilton is the retired Cappon Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He is the General Editor of Spenser Encyclopedia.
Reviews for Spenser: The Faerie Queene (re-issue) (2nd Edition)
All in all, it is a major work of scholarship, combining a meticulously prepared text with splendid annotation. It will last, and will help inspire new generations of readers. Tom MacFaul, Notes and Queries Hamilton's edition of the Faerie Queene is indispensable to any serious scholar of Spenser. Amazon.co.uk review