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Reviewed on June 15, 2012 | Arts and Humanities
Edmund Spenser (1554–99) was the greatest nondramatic poet in the Elizabethan age, next to Shakespeare in the literary canon for his experimentation and poetic richness. He was also a working bureaucrat and, as an Englishman in Ireland, one of the first major colonial thinkers, yet we know little about him. Hadfield (English, Univ. of Sussex), a leading authority on the English Renaissance and its relationship with Ireland, offe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
