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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
August 1, 2012
Pages
624
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780199591022
ISBN-10
0199591024
Dimensions
2 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
2.60 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$45.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'-- a man on the make who aspired to be at court and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted.
In his vibrant and vivid book, the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I and James VI? Why was he more at home with 'the middling sort' -- writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen -- than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work?
Spenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory relationship between his between life and his art.
In his vibrant and vivid book, the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I and James VI? Why was he more at home with 'the middling sort' -- writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen -- than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work?
Spenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory relationship between his between life and his art.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Oxford Univ Pr (August 1, 2012)
9780199591022 | details & prices | 624 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 2.00 in. | 2.60 lbs | List price $45.95
About: Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature.
About: Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature.
Paperback
from Oxford Univ Pr (December 10, 2014)
9780198703006 | details & prices | 624 pages | 6.00 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.20 lbs | List price $27.95
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