Edmund Spenser

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• Edmund Spenser *
• Edmund Spenser *
• Contents *
• Editor's Note ix
• Introduction 1
• The Structure of Imagery in "The Faerie Queene" 23
• The Structure of Allegory in Books I and II of "The Faerie Queene" 41
• Mutability and the Theme of Process 57
• The Marriage of the Thames and Medway 73
• Gardens of Adonis 81
• The Bower of Bliss 97
• The "Mutabilitie Cantos": Archaism and Evolution in Retrospect 111
• Allegory and Pastoral in "The Shepheardes Calender" 141
• Imagery and Prophecy in "The Faerie Queene" 161
• The Romance of Romance 181
• Spenser and the City: the Minor Poems 191

• Edmund Spenser *
• Edmund Spenser *
• Contents *
• Editor's Note ix
• Introduction 1
• The Structure of Imagery in "The Faerie Queene" 23
• The Structure of Allegory in Books I and II of "The Faerie Queene" 41
• Mutability and the Theme of Process 57
• The Marriage of the Thames and Medway 73
• Gardens of Adonis 81
• The Bower of Bliss 97
• The "Mutabilitie Cantos": Archaism and Evolution in Retrospect 111
• Allegory and Pastoral in "The Shepheardes Calender" 141
• Imagery and Prophecy in "The Faerie Queene" 161
• The Romance of Romance 181
• Spenser and the City: the Minor Poems 191
• Mythologies and Metrics in Spenser 211
• The Image of Source in "The Faerie Queene" 219
• "Astrophel" 239
• "The Footing of His Feet": Spenser's Early Error 251
• Envy in the Middest of the 1596 "Faerie Queene" 267
• Chronology 285
• Contributors 287
• Bibliography 289
• Acknowledgments 295
• Index 297