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385 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Introduction : Recuperating the return to history / J.B. Lethbridge -- Pastoral motivation in The shepheardes calender / John Moore -- Plucking the Perrot : Muiopotmos and Irish politics / Thomas Herron -- "Well grounded, finely framed, and strongly trussed up together" : the "Medieval" structure of The faerie queene / Andrew King -- Acrasia and bondage : Guyon's perversion of the Ovidian erotic in Book II of The faerie queene / Syrithe Pugh -- Raleigh, Spenser, and Elizabeth : acts of friendship in The faerie queen, Book IV / Graham Atkin -- Britomart's gone abroad to Brute-land, Colin Clout's come courting from the salvage Ire-land : exile and the Kingdom in some of Spenser's fictions for "crossing over" / James Nohrnberg -- Mutabilitie's debateable land : Spenser's Ireland and the frontiers of faerie / E.A.F. Porges Watson -- Spenser's last days ; Ireland, career, mutability, allegory / J.B. Lethbridge -- Rhyming against the grain : a new look at the Spenserian stanza / Catherine Addison -- MacNeice in fairy land / Richard Danson Brown.
Papers originated at a conference to celebrate Spenser's life, held in County Cork.
Includes bibliographical references and index.