Works 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.

• TextCommendatory Verses and Dedicatory SonnetsCommentaryAppendices:I. The Plan and Conduct of Book ThreeII. The Origin of BritomartIII. The Garden of AdonisIV. The Masque of CupidV. The Italian RomancesVI. The Historical AllegoryVII. The Women of the AllegoryVIII. Spenser's Use of the Plastic ArtsIX. Sources and AnaloguesTextual Appendix:Variant ReadingsCritical Notes on the TestBibliography

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