Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Relevance of Edmund Spenser / Andrew Hadfield
  • Spenser's life and career / Richard Rambuss
  • Historical contexts: Britain and Europe / David J. Baker
  • Ireland: policy, poetics and parody / Richard A. McCabe
  • Spenser's pastorals: The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts come home again / Patrick Cheney
  • Faerie Queene, Books I-III / Susanne L. Wofford
  • Faerie Queene, Books IV-VII - Andrew Hadfield
  • Spenser's shorter poems / Anne Lake Prescott
  • Spenser's languages: writing in the ruins of English - Willy Maley
  • Sexual politics / Linda Gregerson
  • Spenser's religion / John N. King
  • Spenser and classical traditions / Colin Burrow
  • Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry / Roland Greene
  • Spenser's influence / Paul Alpers.