Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion : a critical edition

1997·11.9 MB·English

by  Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599

Edmund
Spenser's
AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION
A CRITICAL EDITION
cneOievAL & ReMAissAKice
xexTS & STuOies
Volume 146
Edmund
Spenser's
AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION
A CRITICAL EDITION
Kenneth Larsen
J.
(DeOieVAl. & RGMAlSSAMCe TejXTS & STuOies
Tempe, AZ
1997
® Copyright 1997
Arizona Board of Regents for Arizona State University
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spenser, Edmund, 1552P-1599.
[Amoretti]
EdmundSpenser'sAmoretti andEpithalamion: acriticaledition
/ Kenneth Larsen.
—J. & &
p. cm. (Medieval Renaissance Texts Studies ; v. 146)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-86698-186-1 (alk. paper)
1. Love poetry, English-Criticism, Textual. 2. Sonnets,
English-Criticism, Textual. 3. Marriage-Poetry. I. Larsen, Kenneth
J. II. Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Epithalamion. III. Title. IV.
Series.
PR2360.A5 1997
821'.3-dc21 96-53914
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Contents
Introduction 1
An Edited Text ofAmoretti andEpithalamion 67
Commentary 121
Textual Notes 255
Appendix 263
Bibliography 276
Index to the Commentary 285
Amoretti: Index of First Lines 290
My gratitude is due to Professor A. C. Hamilton for early encour-
agement and later enthusiasm; to my colleagues in the English Depart-
ment, University of Auckland; to the staff of the Folger Shakespeare
Library for much courtesy and patience; and finally to the fourth
Elizabeth of this sequence, my wife, and to Daniel and Alexander, all
whom
of bore the brunt.
Formal acknowledgement is also made to the Master and Fellows of
Trinity College Cambridge for their kind permission to reproduce
Spenser's Amoretti, 1595: Capell * 18 f.G.3r.