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Edmund Spenser : a life / Andrew Hadfield.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2363 .H22 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hadfield, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
- Poets, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Poets, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographie.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 624 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Writing the life
- Origins and childhood
- Spenser goes to college
- Lost years
- Annus Mirabilis
- To Ireland I
- Spenser's castle
- Back to England
- 1591
- More lost years and second marriage, 1592-5
- Return to London, 1596-7
- Last years, 1597-9
- Afterword
- Appendix 1: Spenser's descendants
- Appendix 2: Portraits of Spenser
- Appendix 3: Spenser's lives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-606) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199591022
- 0199591024
- OCLC:
- 798312256
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