Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene. Edwin Greenlaw was head of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University and the former dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.
TextCommentaryAppendices:I. The Date of CompositionII. Historical AllegoryIII. Moral AllegoryIV. The Virtue of TemperanceV. Spense and MiltonVI. The Mortality ThemeVII. SourcesVIII. The Castle of the BodyIX. Elizabethan PsychologyX. The StructureXI. The Twenty-Second Stanza of Canto 9Textual AppendixBibliography
Once more we are in debt to the great and gracious scholar who has done more than anyone in our century to expedite the study of Spenser's poetry. Journal of English and Germanic Philology The usefulness of the compilation and the skill with which it has been put together will be remarked continually by scholars. Times Literary Supplement