Reserve List

Note: Items marked with an asterisk (*) are not catalogued under the first name listed here, but under that of an editor (Beissinger, Frushell) or an author (Spenser)

• Anderson Judith H., Donald Cheney, and David A. Richardson, eds. Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography. Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
  PR2363 .S65 1996
  
• Cheney, Patrick, and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shorter
  Elizabethan Poetry. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. ISBN 0-
  87352-754-2
  PR 533.A73 2000
• Cheney, Patrick and Lauren Silberman, eds. Worldmaking Spenser : Explorations in the
  Early Modern Age. Lexington : Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2000.
  PR2364 .W67 2000
• Crinò, Anna Maria. Antologia Spenseriana. Verona: Firoini Ghidini, 1966.
  
• De Sélincourt, Ernest, ed. Spenser's Minor Poems. Oxford : Clarendon, 1910.
  PR2352 .S4
  
• *Ford, Andrew. "Epic and the Earliest Greek Allegorists." In M. Beissinger, J. Tylus and
  S. Wofford, eds., Epics and the Contemporary World. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press: 1999, pp. 33-53.
  
• Giamatti, A. B. Play of Double Senses: Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
  PR 2358 .G5
  
• Gless, Darryl J. Interpretation and Theology in Spenser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  PR 2358 .G57 1994
  
• Greenlaw, Edwin, Charles Grosvenor Osgood [and] Frederick Morgan Padelford, eds. The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1932-49. 9 volumes in 10.
  PR2351 .G65 [volumes 1-3, 7.1, 7.2]
  
• Hadfield, Andrew, ed. Edmund Spenser. New York : Longman, 1996. PR2364 .E36 1996
  ---------, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Spenser. New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001. PR2364 .C36 2001
  
• *Hamilton, A. C. "On Annotating Spenser's Faerie Queene: A New Approach to the Poem." In Richard C. Frushell and Bernard J. Vondersmith, eds., Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser. Carbondale: Univ. of Southern Illinois Press, 1975.
  PR2364 .F7
  
• Hamilton, A.C., ed. Spenser: The Faerie Queene. London: Pearson, 2001.

  PR 2358 .A3 H27 2001
  
• King, Andrew. The Faerie Queen and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000.
  
• Larsen, Kenneth J, ed. Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion : A Critical Edition. Tempe, AZ : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997.
  PR2360 .A5 1997
• Maclean, Hugh, and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Edmund Spenser's Poetry: Authoritative
  Texts, Criticism. New York: Norton, 1993.
  PR2352 .M3 1993
• Miller, David Lee, and Alexander Dunlop, eds. Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1994.
  PR2358 .A927 1994
  
• Miller, David Lee. The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988.
  PR2358 .M48 1988
  
• Nohrnberg, James. The Analogy of The Faerie Queene. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 1976.
  PR2358 .N6
  
• Oram, William A. Edmund Spenser. New York : Twayne, 1997.
  PR2364 .O78 1997
  
• Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender. 1579; Menston, England: Scholar, 1968.
  
• Suzuki, Mihoko, ed. Critical essays on Edmund Spenser. New York : G.K. Hall, 1995.
  PR2364 .C69 1996
  
• Smith, J. C., ed. Spenser's Faerie Queene. Oxford : Clarendon, 1909.
  PR 2350 1909
  
• *Todd, John. The Works of Edmund Spenser. London: Rivington, 1805. 8 vols. [vols. 1-3]
  PR 2351 .T6
• Wofford, Susanne. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.
  PR 2358 .W6 1992

Other research and reference materials [not on reserve, but in reference or periodicals]:

• Grendler, Paul F., et al., eds. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner's, 1999. Young Reference.
  CB361 .E52 1999
  
• Hamilton, A.C, et al, eds. The Spenser Encyclopedia. Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Press, 1990. PR2362 .S630 1990
  
• Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1984.
  PN86.L56
  
• The Spenser Review. Formerly The Spenser Newsletter.
  PR2368.Z9 S74
  
• Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
  DE5 .O9 1996.
  

Selected Works from the Spenser Section in Young Library
5th Floor; PR 2350-2368

• Kaske, Carol. Spenser and Biblical Poetics. Ithica: Cornell UP, 1999.
  PR2367.R4 K37 1999
• Lotspeich, Henry Gibbons. Classical Mythology in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1932.
  PR2367.C6 L7 1931
• Osgood, Charles Grosvenor ed. A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915.
  PR2368 .O7
  
• Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in the Faerie Queene. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1976.
  PR2358 .S45
  

King Library Special Collections

• 1611 & 1617 Faerie Queene, The Shepheards Calendar, Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët
  1611: PR2358.A3 L640
  1617: 821 Sp34f 1617
  
  
• 1591 Complaints: Containing Sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the next Page maketh mention
  PR2357 .A3 1591
  
  
• 1558 Orlando Furioso
  851 Ar43 1558

• Edmund Spenser Home Page

This is the first place to start browsing. This Grand Central Spenser Station has everything: Bibliographies, Biographies, Online Texts, The International Spenser Society, etc.

• Edmund Spenser, On Line

The searchable database of bibliographies, abstracts, and reviews from Spenser Newsletter. The database is currently complete for issues of the journal published from 1986 to 1999.

• Edmund Spenser: Additional Sources

Lots of useful links worth browsing through, particularly the on-line entries from
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature concerning Spenser and the images. Many biographies and individual sites listed as well.

• Spenser Texts

A comprehensive listing of online texts compliments of the Edmund Spenser Homepage.

• Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents

  Thorough, essential site for any aspiring Renaissance scholar.

• Oxford English Dictionary

Available for on-campus users only. Discover obscure words and illuminating etymologies.

• Early Modern English Dictionary Database

  An ambitious project that collects entries from English dictionaries from 1530-1657. Requires painless registration.

• Oxford Classical Dictionary

Available for on-campus users only. Who was Aigisthos? Who were King Priam's daughters? Defintions for many Classical characters and places that Spenser throws at you. Access from UK classics webpage.

• Beazely Classical Dictionary

  This dictionary is not comprehensive and no substitute for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, but it is an alternative for off-campus users.

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