Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
Auteur de La Reine des fées - The Faerie Queene (édition bilingue)
A propos de l'auteur
"The poet's poet"---as Charles Lamb was to call Spenser two centuries later---was born in London, where he attended school before going to Cambridge in 1569. About 1579 he came to know Sir Philip Sidney; his first significant work, The Shepheardes Calendar, published under a pseudonym in 1579 and afficher plus consisting of 12 "ecologues" (one for each month of the year), was dedicated to Sidney. Spenser hoped for advancement at the court of Queen Elizabeth, but in August 1580 he took a minor position in Ireland, where he spent the rest of his life, save for two visits to England. In 1594 he married Elizabeth Boyle, in Cork; the sonnet sequence Amoretti (1595) bears on his courtship, and the great marriage hymn, Epithalamion (1595), celebrates the wedding. The first three books of Spenser's allegorical epic romance,The Faerie Queene, appeared in 1590; three more appeared in 1596. A fragment, the Cantos of Mutabilitie, which may or may not have been intended to form part of the great poem, appeared in 1609, after Spenser's death. Spenser appended a letter to his friend Sir Walter Raleigh to the edition of 1590, explaining that the "general end...of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Although Spenser planned to write 12 books in all, only 6, and the two Cantos of Mutabilitie, survive. The rest may possibly have been destroyed by Irish rebels when, in 1598, they sacked Spenser's Irish residence at Kilcolman, but it is equally possible that the poet never managed to bring his massively planned work to completion. Spenser's Amoretti (1595) is one of the more idealized sonnet sequences, and Colin Clout's Come Home Again (1595) is an allegorical attack on the taste of the court. Like many Renaissance authors, his writings extend beyond the narrowly literary; his tract "A View of the Present State of Ireland" (1596) provides a series of brutal recommendations for the colonial suppression of England's Irish territories. Spenser's complex range of styles and genres served as both a model and a challenge for his contemporaries and for later authors. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Edmund Spenser
Books I and II of The Faerie Queene: The Mutability Cantos and Selections from the Minor Poetry (1968) 194 exemplaires
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, 2nd Edition 67 exemplaires
The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898) (1579) 45 exemplaires
Saint George and the Dragon: Being The Legend of the Red Cross Knight from The Faerie Queene (1963) 21 exemplaires
The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selection (Everyman) 21 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spencer. Edited for Popular Perusal, with… (1874) 9 exemplaires
Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 16) (2012) 9 exemplaires
Spenser: The Faerie Queene 8 exemplaires
Epithalamion 8 exemplaires
Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First 7 exemplaires
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. v. 6. The Faerie Qveene Books 6 & 7 (1958) 6 exemplaires
The Complete Works of Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene, Prothalamion, Foure Hymnes, Amoretti and Epithalamion and More… (2013) 4 exemplaires
The faerie queene disposed into twelve bookes fashioning XII moral vertues. To which is added his Epithalamion (1865) 3 exemplaires
Knights of the Faerie Queene 3 exemplaires
The faerie queen ; The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët 3 exemplaires
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book I [of II] — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
Ballads of Books 2 exemplaires
The Faerie Queene I. and II. Prothalamion 2 exemplaires
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY NO. 444: THE FAERIE QUEENE: VOL. II. 2 exemplaires
The Poems of Edmund Spenser [selected]. Edited, with an Essay, Biographical and Critical, and Glossary, (1903) 2 exemplaires
Poems 2 exemplaires
The Poems of Spenser — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser : viz : The Faery queen, The Shepherds calendar, The history… 2 exemplaires
The Poems of Edmund Spenser (Selected). Edited, with an Essay, Biographical and Critical, and Glossary, by Roden. 2 exemplaires
The Faerie Queene, Volume One by Edmund Spencer 2 exemplaires
The works of Edmund Spenser. Volume III 1 exemplaire
Spenser's faerie queene: Volume II, books IV-VII 1 exemplaire
The works of Edmund Spenser. Volume V 1 exemplaire
Sonnet 75 1 exemplaire
The works of Edmund Spenser. Volume IV 1 exemplaire
Works of Edmund Spenser. Volume I 1 exemplaire
Poems (The Golden poets) 1 exemplaire
Britomart, from Books III, IV, and V of the Feary queene.: Edited, with introduction and notes by Mary E. Litchfield. (2009) 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spencer, Volume IV 1 exemplaire
Selected Poems 1 exemplaire
Works of Edmund Spenser. Volume II 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spencer, Vol V 1 exemplaire
Selections, by E. Spenser 1 exemplaire
Tales from Spenser : chosen from The Faerie Queen 1 exemplaire
Second part of The faerie queene 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queene Coronation Edition 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser Edited with Critical Notes by J. C. Smith and E. De Selincourt with an… 1 exemplaire
The Lyric Poems of Edmund Spenser 1 exemplaire
Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book II [of II] — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
A concordance to the sonnet sequence of Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser (1969) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Pitt Press Series; The Faerie Queene. Book 1 1 exemplaire
Faery Queene ( Clarendon Press Series ) Book One 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queen Book One 1 exemplaire
The Lansdowne Poets: Notes, Memoir &c. 1 exemplaire
Daphnaida and Othe Poems 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queene, etc 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queene: Books I-VI 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited with critical notes by J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt. With an… 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, Volume II 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: From the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. With the Life of Author. Volume 2 (1999) 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, Volume III 1 exemplaire
Spenser's Minor Poems. Containing the Shepheardes Calendar, Complaints, Daphnaida, Colin Clouts come Home again,… 1 exemplaire
Sonnet 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, vol. v 1 exemplaire
The Works of Edmund Spenser, with a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators, and a Glossarial Index, to which is… (1856) 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queene: Maynard's English Classic Series #27 with Explanatory Notes. (27) (1892) 1 exemplaire
The Great Transition 1 exemplaire
The works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 4 1 exemplaire
The works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 5 1 exemplaire
The Works of Edmund Spenser, Edited By R. Morris 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, vol. vi 1 exemplaire
A Spenser Handbook. 1 exemplaire
The Works of Spencer 1 exemplaire
The poems of Edmund Spencer : selected 1 exemplaire
Astrophell 1 exemplaire
Spenser (The Laurel Poetry Series) 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queene - 1596 - Volume II (THE SECOND PART OF THE FAERIE QVEENE - Containing The Forth, Fifth, and Sixth… 1 exemplaire
La reine des fées (The Faerie Queene) extraits 1 exemplaire
Selected Writings (Routledge English Texts) 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Edmund Spenser, vol. i, ii, iv 1 exemplaire
The Histories 1 exemplaire
So Oft as I Her Beauty to Behold (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 exemplaire
Edmund Spenser: A Collection of His Works 1 exemplaire
THE SQUIRE OF LOW DEGREE - Book 4 from the Stories of the Faerie Queene: Stories of the Faerie Queene - Book 4 (2018) 1 exemplaire
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves 1 exemplaire
An Original Canto of Spencer: Design'd as Part of His Fairy Queen, But Never Printed (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 2: The Shepheards Calender and Glosse, 1597; With Various… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Faerie Queen, Book I D5 1 exemplaire
Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 exemplaire
One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 exemplaire
Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart's Desire (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 exemplaire
Perigot and Willie's Roundelay (The Compete Harvard Classics Collection, vol. 40) (KINDLE) 1 exemplaire
the selected poetry of Spencer 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works. Edited From The Best Editions. With Memoir, Notes, Glossary, &C. (1883) 1 exemplaire
Spencer's poetical works 1 exemplaire
Poems: “Amoretti” and “Prothalamion” 1 exemplaire
The approach to Spenser 1 exemplaire
The Faery Queen. Edited From the Best Editions, With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary (2010) 1 exemplaire
Works of Spenser, 5vols 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1552
- Date de décès
- 1599-01-13
- Lieu de sépulture
- Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK (birth | death)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Kilcolman Castle, County Cork, Ireland
Kent, England, UK - Études
- Cambridge University (Pembroke Hall now Pembroke College)
- Professions
- secretary
poet
Membres
Discussions
Faerie Queene à Folio Society Devotees (Novembre 2021)
The Faerie Queene à Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Août 2011)
Critiques
SPENCER Poetical Works par Smith J.C. / E. De Selincourt. edited by
Ths is all the Spencer we have. It contains the Faerie Queen, several sonnet sequences and a bit of prose mostly relating to the earthquake of 1579. Spencer, being consciously arty, uses the very open spelling of the Chaucerian period. There is a biographical and bibliographical essay at the beginning of the book. This collection certainly made me more appreciative of Shakespeare.
Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.
One of my favorite books ever. I love how Spenser crafted his own language.
It's difficult for me to discuss this one ... Spenser was actually the first poet I "liked" after spending much of my childhood thinking poetry -- which I now aspire to write, myself -- was "dumb." Well, okay, a lot of poetry IS dumb, but then so much % of anything is bullshit (I'm murdering "Sturgeon's Law" there). I didn't read The Faerie Queene, which I *think* is still, in its half-completed state, the longest poem in the English language, until much later, but hoo-ee, is it ever something. Spenser seems to have been a bit of a shit human being (if I am not mistaken his rep in Ireland is still, uh, problematic) but what a poet. I forget who said it ... it might've been C.S. Lewis or maybe it was A. C. Baugh in his history of English Literature (which I read around the same time as The Faerie Queene) ... but next to the golden landslide of Spenser even Shakespeare comes to look a bit like tinsel. I look forward to one day going through it all again ... hope I live long enough.… (plus d'informations)
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