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Born in 1552 / Died in January 16, 1599 / United Kingdom / English

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  • Frederick Ives Carpenter, A Reference Guide to Edmund Spenser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923).
  • Francis R. Johnson, A Critical Bibliography of the Works of Edmund Spenser Printed before 1700 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1933).
  • Jewell Wurtsbaugh, Two Centuries of Spenserian Scholarship (1609-1805) (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936).
  • Dorothy R. Atkinson, Edmund Spenser: A Bibliographical Supplement (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937)--covers the period 1923-1937.
  • A. C. Hamilton, "Edmund Spenser," in The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, volume 1, edited by George Watson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), cols. 1029-1047.
  • Waldo F. McNeir and Foster Provost, Edmund Spenser: An Annotated Bibliography 1937-72 (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1975).
  • William L. Sipple and Bernard Vondersmith, Edmund Spenser 1900-1936: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984).
  • Alexander C. Judson, The Life of Edmund Spenser (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1945).
  • Willy Maley, A Spenser Chronology (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1994).
  • Paul J. Alpers, The Poetry of "The Faerie Queene" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967).
  • Alpers, "Spenser's Late Pastorals," English Literary History (ELH), 56 (Winter 1989): 797-816.
  • Alpers, ed., Edmund Spenser: A Critical Anthology (Baltimore: Penguin, 1969).
  • Judith H. Anderson, "'In liuing colours and right hew': The Queen of Spenser's Central Books," in Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance, edited by Maynard Mack and George de Forest Lord (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 47-66.
  • Anderson, Donald Cheney, and David A. Richardson, eds., Spenser and the Subject of Biography (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).
  • Jane Aptekar, Icons of Justice: Iconography and Thematic Imagery in Book V of "The Faerie Queene" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969).
  • Mark A. Archer, "The Meaning of 'Grace' and "Courtesy': Book VI of The Faerie Queene," Studies in English Literature, 27 (Winter 1987): 17-34.
  • Peter Bayley, ed., Spenser: "The Faerie Queene": A Casebook (London: Macmillan, 1977).
  • John B. Bender, Spenser and Literary Pictorialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972).
  • Pamela Joseph Benson, The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992).
  • Harry Berger Jr., The Allegorical Temper: Vision and Reality in Book II of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957).
  • Berger, Revisionary Play: Studies in the Spenserian Dynamics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
  • Berger, ed., Spenser: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968).
  • John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  • Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 153-165.
  • Harold Bloom, ed., Modern Critical Views: Edmund Spenser (New York: Chelsea, 1986).
  • Kenneth Borris, Spenser's Poetics of Prophecy in "The Faerie Queene" V, English Literary Studies, Monograph Series No. 52 (Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1991).
  • Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield, and Willy Maley, eds., Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  • Douglas Brooks-Davies, Spenser's "Faerie Queene": A Critical Commentary on Books I and II (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977).
  • Thomas H. Cain, Praise in "The Faerie Queene" (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978).
  • Sheila T. Cavanagh, Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in "The Faerie Queene" (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1994).
  • Donald Cheney, Spenser's Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in "The Faerie Queene" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966).
  • Patrick Cheney, "The Old Poet Presents Himself: Prothalamion as a Defense of Spenser's Career," Spenser Studies, 8 (1987): 211-238.
  • Patrick Cheney, Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
  • Terry Comito, "A Dialectic of Images in Spenser's Fowre Hymnes," Studies in Philology, 74 (July 1977): 301-321.
  • Patricia Coughlin, ed., Spenser and Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, with an introduction by Nicholas Canny (Cork: Cork University Press, 1989).
  • Martha Craig, "The Secret Wit of Spenser's Language," in Elizabethan Poetry: Essays in Criticism, edited by Paul J. Alpers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 447-472.
  • Critical Essays on Spenser from "ELH" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970).
  • R. M. Cummings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1971).
  • Judith Dundas, Pencils Rhetorique: Renaissance Poets and the Art of Painting (Toronto & London: Associated University Presses, 1993).
  • Dundas, The Spider and the Bee: The Artistry of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985).
  • Alexander Dunlop, "The Unity of Spenser's Amoretti," in Silent Poetry: Essays in Numerological Analysis, edited by Alastair Fowler (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970), pp. 153-169.
  • T. K. Dunseath, Spenser's Allegory of Justice in Book Five of "The Faerie Queene" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968).
  • Calvin Edwards, Spenser and the Ovidian Tradition, dissertation, Yale University, 1958.
  • John R. Elliott Jr., ed., The Prince of Poets: Essays on Edmund Spenser (New York: New York University Press, 1968).
  • Robert Ellrodt, Neoplatonism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (Geneva: E. Droz, 1960).
  • Maurice Evans, Spenser's Anatomy of Heroism: A Commentary on "The Faerie Queene" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970).
  • Rosemary Freeman, "The Faerie Queene": A Companion for Readers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).
  • Richard C. Frushell and Bernard J. Vondersmith, eds., Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser (Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1975).
  • Lila Geller, "Venus and the Three Graces: A Neoplatonic Paradigm for Book III of The Faerie Queene," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 75 (January/April 1976): 56-74.
  • A. Bartlett Giamatti, Play of Double Senses: Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975).
  • Jonathan Goldberg, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981).
  • Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 157-192.
  • Gladys D. Haase, Spenser's Orthography: An Examination of a Poet's Use of the Variant Pronunciations of Elizabethan English, dissertation, Columbia University, 1952.
  • A. C. Hamilton, "'Like Race to Runne': The Parallel Structure of The Faerie Queene, Books I and II," Publications of the Modern Language Association, 73 (September 1958): 327-334.
  • Hamilton, The Structure of Allegory in "The Faerie Queene" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961).
  • Hamilton, ed., Essential Articles for the Study of Edmund Spenser (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1972).
  • Hamilton, Donald Cheney, W. F. Blissett, David A. Richardson, and William W. Barker, eds., The Spenser Encyclopedia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
  • John Erskine Hankins, Source and Meaning in Spenser's Allegory: A Study of "The Faerie Queene" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
  • Elizabeth Heale, "The Faerie Queene": A Study Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Richard Helgerson, Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
  • S. K. Heninger Jr., Sidney and Spenser: The Poet as Maker (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).
  • A. Kent Hieatt, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton: Mythopoetic Continuities and Transformations (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975).
  • Hieatt, "The Genesis of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Spenser's Ruines of Rome: by Bellay," Publications of the Modern Language Association, 98 (October 1983): 800-814.
  • Hieatt, Short Time's Endless Monument: The Symbolism of the Numbers in Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960).
  • Robert Hoopes, "'God Guide Thee, Guyon': Nature and Grace Reconciled in The Faerie Queene, Book II," Review of English Studies, new series 5, no. 17 (1954): 14-24.
  • Ronald A. Horton, The Unity of "The Faerie Queene" (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978).
  • Graham Hough, A Preface to "The Faerie Queene" (London: Duckworth, 1962).
  • Merritt Y. Hughes, Virgil and Spenser (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929).
  • Clark Hulse, "Spenser and the Myth of Power," Studies in Philology, 85 (1988): 378-389.
  • Anthea Hume, Edmund Spenser: Protestant Poet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
  • Lynn Staley Johnson, "The Shepheardes Calender": An Introduction (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990).
  • Carol V. Kaske, "Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion of 1595: Structure, Genre, and Numerology," English Literary Renaissance, 8 (Autumn 1978): 271-295.
  • Judith M. Kennedy and James A. Reither, eds., A Theatre for Spenserians (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973).
  • John N. King, Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
  • Theresa M. Krier, Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorum of Vision (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
  • Robert Lane, Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender" and the Institutions of Elizabethan Society (Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 1993).
  • Michael Leslie, Spenser's "Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves": Martial and Chivalric Symbolism in "The Faerie Queene" (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983).
  • C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936), pp. 297-360.
  • Lewis, "Sidney and Spenser," in English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), pp. 318-393.
  • Benjamin G. Lockerd Jr., The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in "The Faerie Queene" (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1987).
  • Isabel G. MacCaffrey, Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976).
  • Richard A. McCabe, The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in "The Faerie Queene," Dublin Series in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1989).
  • Russell J. Meyer, The Faerie Queene": Educating the Reader (Boston: Twayne, 1991).
  • David Lee Miller, The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 "Faerie Queene" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
  • Miller and Dunlop, eds., Approaches to Teaching Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (New York: Modern Language Association, 1994).
  • Charles Bowie Millican, Spenser and the Table Round: A Study in the Contemporaneous Background for Spenser's Use of the Arthurian Legend (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1932).
  • Louis A. Montrose, "The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text," in Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts, edited by Patricia Parker and David Quint (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), pp. 303-340.
  • William R. Mueller, Spenser's Critics: Changing Currents in Literary Taste (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1959).
  • William Nelson, The Poetry of Edmund Spenser: A Study (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).
  • Nelson, ed., Form and Convention in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961).
  • Richard Neuse, "Book VI as Conclusion to The Faerie Queene," English Literary History (ELH), 35 (September 1968): 329-353.
  • James Nohrnberg, The Analogy of "The Faerie Queene" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976).
  • Michael O'Connell, Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977).
  • William A. Oram, "Elizabethan Fact and Spenserian Fiction," Spenser Studies, 4 (1983): 33-47.
  • Charles Grosvenor Osgood, A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915).
  • Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Arts and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), pp. 170-193.
  • Annabel Patterson, Reading between the Lines (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993).
  • Richard Rambuss, Spenser's Secret Career (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  • W. L. Renwick, Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry (London: Edward Arnold, 1925).
  • Herbert David Rix, Rhetoric in Spenser's Poetry (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1940).
  • Gareth Roberts, The Faerie Queene (Buckingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1992).
  • Thomas P. Roche Jr., The Kindly Flame: A Study of the Third and Fourth Books of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964).
  • Mark Rose, Spenser's Art: A Companion to Book One of "The Faerie Queen" (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1975).
  • Roger Sale, Reading Spenser: An Introduction to "The Faerie Queene" (New York: Random House, 1968).
  • Naseeb Shaheen, Biblical References in "The Faerie Queen" (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1977).
  • Simon Shepherd, Spenser (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1989).
  • Helena Shire, A Preface to Spenser (London & New York: Longman, 1978).
  • David R. Shore, Spenser and the Poetics of Pastoral: A Study of the World of Colin Clout (Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985).
  • Lauren Silberman, "Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book 3 of The Faerie Queene," in Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, edited by Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 259-271.
  • Silberman, Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of "The Faerie Queene" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
  • Charles G. Smith, Spenser's Proverb Lore (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970).
  • Hallett Smith, Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meaning, and Expression (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952).
  • Spenser Newsletter (1969- ).
  • Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual (1980- ).
  • Donald V. Stump, "Isis versus Mercilla: The Allegorical Shrines in Spenser's Legend of Justice," Spenser Studies, 3 (1983): 87-98.
  • Herbert W. Sugden, The Grammar of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, 1936).
  • Humphrey Tonkin, The Faerie Queene (London: Unwin, 1989).
  • Tonkin, Spenser's Courteous Pastoral: Book VI of "The Faerie Queene" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
  • Gary Waller, Edmund Spenser: A Literary Life (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
  • John Watkins, The Specter of Dido: Spenser and the Virgilian Epic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
  • Harold L. Weatherby, Mirrors of Celestial Grace: Patristic Theology in Spenser's Allegory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994).
  • Robin Headlam Wells, Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and the Cult of Elizabeth (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1983).
  • William Wells, ed., Spenser Allusions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 2 volumes, Studies in Philology, Texts and Studies 78-79 (1971-1972).
  • Virgil K. Whitaker, The Religious Basis of Spenser's Thought (Stanford, Cal,: Stanford University Press, 1950).
  • Charles Huntington Whitman, A Subject Index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918).
  • Arnold Williams, Flower on a Lowly Stalk: The Sixth Book of the "Faerie Queene" (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967).
  • Kathleen Williams, Spenser's "Faerie Queene": The World of Glass Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966).
  • Susanne Lindgren Wofford, The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. 215-371.
  • A. S. P. Woodhouse, "Nature and Grace in The Faerie Queene," English Literary History (ELH), 16 (September 1949): 194-228.
  • Susanne Woods, "Spenser and the Problem of Women's Rule," Huntington Library Quarterly, 48 (Spring 1985): 141-158.