Edmund Spenser

An archive of bibliographies, abstracts, and
reviews from Spenser Newsletter and The Spenser Review.

Includes Spencer's letters from the 1580s, A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland, and other resources, including a word-list and a 16th century dictionary of Chaucerian vocabulary.

Biographies and literary (prose and/or poetry) works of Henry VIII, Sir Thomas More, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Hoby, Roger Ascham, John Foxe, Edward de Vere, Elizabeth I, and George Gascoigne.

All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise. Follow the instructions below to find your way around. Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors. The poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt are also given, with both old and modern spelling versions, and with brief notes provided.