Volume 10, Number 11 · June 6, 1968
Reviving Spenser
By Robert M. Adams
Spenser's World of Glass
by Kathleen Williams
California, 241 pp., $5.00
Spenser's Images of Life
by C.S. Lewis, edited by Alastair Fowler
Cambridge, 144 pp., $3.95
The Poetry of "The Faerie Queene"
by Paul J. Alpers
Princeton, 415 pp., $12.50
Allegorical Imagery
by Rosemond Tuve
Princeton, 461 pp., $12.50
Spenser's Image of Nature: Wild Man and Shepherd in "The Faerie Queene"
by Donald Cheney
Yale, 262 pp., $6.50
Trite as it is to exclaim over the amount of critical commentary piling up on a poet, one can't help nothing how discussion of Edmund Spenser and his poetry has proliferated in the 1960s. There have been full-length studies by M. Pauline Parker (1960) and A. C. Hamilton (1961), by Robert Ellrodt (1960) and Graham Hough (1962), by T. P. Roche and Alastair Fowler (both 1964), and two by William Nelson (1961 and 1963), not to mention the five studies under review here and at least as many books on more general topics in which Spenser plays a major role. At a conservative estimate, it seems probable that the 1960s have already produced at least ten times as much commentary on Spenser as the two centuries immediately after his death.[1]
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