Concordance to the Rhymes of the Faerie Queene

Richard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open UniversityJ.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen University

• Part I: Critical studies1. ‘Charmed with inchaunted rimes’: an introduction to the Faerie Queene rhymes concordance – Richard Danson Brown2. The bondage of rhyme in The Faerie Queene: moderate ‘this ornament of rhyme’ – J.B. LethbridgePart II: The concordance of rhymesPart III: Ancillary listsIndexBibliography

'Essential reading for Spenserians and students of English prosody.'Craig A. Berry, Independent Scholar'Brown and Lethbridge have produced a book that no one who is seriously interested in poetry can afford to ignore.'Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex'The devoted editors of this volume have given us a remarkable tool, or set of tools, with which we can now better trace the intertwined networks of sound and sense in The Faerie Queene.'Kenneth Gross, author of Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic and Shakespeare’s Noise