Download or read book Edmund Spenser s Shepheardes Calender 1579 written by Kenneth Borris and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spenser’s extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile of the 1579 Calender available as a book. The editor reconsiders the original book’s development, production, design, and particular characteristics, and demonstrates both its correlations with diverse precursors in print and its significant departures. Numerous illustrations of archival sources facilitate comparison. By reinvestigating the 1579 Calender’s twelve pictures, he shows that Spenser himself probably designed them, that they involve complex symbolism, and that this book’s meaning is thus profoundly verbal-visual. An analyzed facsimile is an essential new resource for study of Spenser’s Calender, Spenser, Elizabethan print and poetics, and early modern English literary history.
Download or read book The Shepherd s Calendar written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Edmund Spenser and published by Burt Franklin. This book was released on 1890 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spenser's brilliant use of the literary conventions of the pastoral to satirize the contemporary political milieu in Elizabethan England.
Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser the Original Edition of 1579 in Photographic Facsimile with an Introduction written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1579 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Professor Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LONDON publisher has brought out in excellent style a facsimile of the first (1579) edition of Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," edited by Mr. H. Oskar Sommer, whose introduction is a really valuable addition to critical literature, inasmuch as it settles the question of the authorship of the "Glosse," or explanatory commentary, accompanying the poem. This is professedly written by one "E. K.," who represents himself as a friend of the unknown author-for it was not until [611, when the poem was reprinted for the sixth time, that Spenser's name was attached to it. In 1579 no one seems to have cared to know who the anonymous poet's friend might be; but many years afterwards people began to inquire about "E. K." and, finding that a certain Edward Kirke (or Kerke) was at Cambridge at the same time with Spenser and in the very same college, hastily decided that he must be the man. There was not then, nor has there since been found, a particle of evidence that Kirke and Spenser were friends; but nearly all the editors and critics have nevertheless assumed that the identity of the initials settled the question. Hales, for instance, in his useful "Globe" edition of the poet, says: "These poems were ushered into the world by Spenser's college friend (in Cambridge), Edward Kirke, for such no doubt is the true interpretation of the initials, 'E. K.'" A few critics, among whom was Craik, ventured, however, to suggest that "E. K." might be Spenser himself; and Mr. Sommer has now practically proved that they were right. We can refer here to only one bit. of evidence out of many that he adduces; but this alone is conclusive. In the comments on the Eclogue of May, " E. K." quotes a Latin couplet, of which he gives his own translation thus: "All that I take did I joy, and all that I greedily gorged As for the many goodly matters left I for others." In a letter to Harvey, dated April 10, 1580, Spenser gives the same couplet (except for the change of "all that" to "that which") as his own "extempore" translation of the Latin. The reproduction of the poem in the present edition is by photography from one of the four copies of the original now in existence. The text is in black letter, with quaint woodcuts as vignettes to the twelve divisions, or months. The mechanical execution is of the daintiest, and only 520 numbered copies are issued. - "The Literary World," Vol. 20 [1889]
Download or read book The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser The Shepheards calender and Glosse 1597 with various readings of the quartos 1579 91 written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender the Original Ed of 1579 in Facs written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Shorter Poems written by Edmund Spenser and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spenser's celebrated manifesto poem, The Shepherds' Calendar (1579), together with its original prefatory material and the contemporary glosses by E.K., appears here for the first time in a modernised form, but with the conscious archaisms and dialectal forms retained so that it can now, for the first time since it was published, be read as the linguistic palimpsest Spenser intended it to be.
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepheardes Calender written by Edmund Spenser and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In emulation of Virgil's first work, the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals to begin his career. However, Spenser's models were rather the Renaissance eclogues of Mantuanus. The title, like the entire work, is written using deliberately archaic spellings, in order to suggest a connection to medieval literature, and to Geoffrey Chaucer in particular. The poem introduces Colin Clout, a folk character originated by John Skelton, and depicts his life as a shepherd through the twelve months of the year. The Calender encompasses considerable formal innovations, anticipating the even more virtuosic Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia, 1580), the classic pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney, with whom Spenser was acquainted. It is also remarkable for the extensive commentary included with the work in its first publication, ascribed to an E.K. E.K. is an intelligent, very subtle, and often deeply ironic commentator, and is frequently assumed to be an alias of Spenser himself. The term sarcasm is first recorded in English in Spenser's poem.
Download or read book Self Commentary in Early Modern European Literature 1400 1700 written by Francesco Venturi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Dutch Republic.
Download or read book Edmund Spenser The Shepheardes Calender written by Edmund Spenser and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser was born in 1552 in East Smithfield, London. Here we publish The Shepheardes Clendar a much admired work that was first published in 1579. In July of 1580, he departed for Ireland in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. Grey was recalled but Spenser stayed, having now acquired official posts and lands in the Munster Plantation. In 1590, Spenser brought out the first three books of his most famous work, The Faerie Queene. Its success enabled him to obtain a life pension of 50 a year from the Queen. In 1596, Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled, A View of the Present State of Ireland. This piece, in the form of a dialogue, circulated in manuscript, argued that Ireland would never be totally 'pacified' by the English until its indigenous language and customs had been destroyed, if necessary by violence. In 1599, Spenser traveled to London, where he died at the age of forty-six. His coffin was carried to his grave in Westminster Abbey by other poets, who threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave with many tears.
Download or read book Complaints written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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