Edmund Spenser The Complete Poetical Works Annotated eBook Edmund Spenser
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- Includes a biographical essay placing Spenser’s life and work within the context of his time
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) was one of the greatest poets ever to write in English. He dominated the literary scene during Shakespeare’s time, and exerted an extensive influence on the playwright. Spenser’s verse epic The Faerie Queene, celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is one of the timeless masterpieces of western culture.
Lexicos Publishing is proud to present Spenser’s complete poetical works for the first time ever in ebook format. This magnificent edition gathers together all of Spenser’s poems and verse compositions. It includes The Faerie Queene complete and unabridged, along with The Shepheardes Calender, Astrophel, and Spenser’s numerous shorter poems. It has been meticulously edited and formatted for .
Edmund Spenser The Complete Poetical Works Annotated eBook Edmund Spenser
This Kindle edition is splendid to look at and the text is sound, but, even with hyperlinks, finding your way from the Table of Contents to the selection you actually want to read has been made unnecessarily, preposterously inconvenient. Thus, to get to "The Faerie Queene," Spenser's greatest and most-read work, you not only have to wade through many works of far less value and interest; you have to inch along through every single minor division of those many works--for instance, every single sonnet of the "Amoretti" gets its own line in the Table of Contents, and when you finally get to "The Faerie Queene," every single canto of every book gets its own line. It is not a simple matter of going to a one-page list of Spenser's works, clicking on "The Faerie Queene" to get a list of the poem's books, then clicking on Book III to get a list of the book's cantos, then clicking on canto xii; on the contrary, you have to go through page after page after page after page of the Table of Contents even to get to "The Faerie Queene," then go through page after page after page after page of canto listings until you come to Book III canto xii. There are no submenus. I think most readers would prefer the "Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser," which is cheaper, incomparably easier to get around in, and as a bonus includes Spenser's prose treatise on Ireland (ideologically appalling though that is). As for the claim in Amazon's listing that this edition is annotated, the only annotations I find are E.K.'s original 1579 glosses to "The Shepheardes Calendar."Product details
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Edmund Spenser The Complete Poetical Works Annotated eBook Edmund Spenser Reviews
I bought this after buying another edition by the same publisher, and like the other one, this one is worth paying for. The publisher has assembled all of the poems, which you can't even find all together in free editions, and all the line breaks etc are there. (I don't know how Spenser wrote so much just using a quill or whatever, but there you go.)
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Spenser is pre-Shakespeare, if memory serves. He's wonderful, but the language takes some getting used to. He wrote a LOT. I mean really, A LOT. If you buy this you'll be reading it awhile. It's worth it for the ending to The Fairy Queen.
This edition is splendid to look at and the text is sound, but, even with hyperlinks, finding your way from the Table of Contents to the selection you actually want to read has been made unnecessarily, preposterously inconvenient. Thus, to get to "The Faerie Queene," Spenser's greatest and most-read work, you not only have to wade through many works of far less value and interest; you have to inch along through every single minor division of those many works--for instance, every single sonnet of the "Amoretti" gets its own line in the Table of Contents, and when you finally get to "The Faerie Queene," every single canto of every book gets its own line. It is not a simple matter of going to a one-page list of Spenser's works, clicking on "The Faerie Queene" to get a list of the poem's books, then clicking on Book III to get a list of the book's cantos, then clicking on canto xii; on the contrary, you have to go through page after page after page after page of the Table of Contents even to get to "The Faerie Queene," then go through page after page after page after page of canto listings until you come to Book III canto xii. There are no submenus. I think most readers would prefer the "Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser," which is cheaper, incomparably easier to get around in, and as a bonus includes Spenser's prose treatise on Ireland (ideologically appalling though that is). As for the claim in 's listing that this edition is annotated, the only annotations I find are E.K.'s original 1579 glosses to "The Shepheardes Calendar."
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