http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/10-facts-and-conjectures-about-edmund-spenser/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/10-facts-and-conjectures-about-edmund-spenser/#comment-410682 Lys Avra Tue, 14 May 2013 04:08:06 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=25300#comment-410682 I like the pictures in this blog. I know that's silly, but I really do... so, biographer, what is the best thing Edmund Spenser wrote, out of curiosity, in your opinion? I like the pictures in this blog. I know that’s silly, but I really do…
so, biographer, what is the best thing Edmund Spenser wrote, out of curiosity, in your opinion?

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/10-facts-and-conjectures-about-edmund-spenser/#comment-341846 The death of Edmund Spenser | OUPblog Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:31:46 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=25300#comment-341846 [...] (2006-11) and is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement. Read his previous blog post “10 facts and conjectures about Edmund Spenser” and “Edmund Spenser: ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing [...] [...] (2006-11) and is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement. Read his previous blog post “10 facts and conjectures about Edmund Spenser” and “Edmund Spenser: ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/10-facts-and-conjectures-about-edmund-spenser/#comment-281350 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Edmund Spenser: ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet?’ Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:31:32 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=25300#comment-281350 [...] In the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great: Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I, and James VI? Why was he more at home with ‘the middling sort’ — writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen — than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work? Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and the author of Edmund Spenser: A Life (OUP, 2012). He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625; Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl; and Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. He was editor of Renaissance Studies (2006-11) and is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement. Read his previous blog post “10 facts and conjectures about Edmund Spenser.” [...] [...] In the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great: Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I, and James VI? Why was he more at home with ‘the middling sort’ — writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen — than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work? Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and the author of Edmund Spenser: A Life (OUP, 2012). He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism; Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625; Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl; and Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance. He was editor of Renaissance Studies (2006-11) and is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement. Read his previous blog post “10 facts and conjectures about Edmund Spenser.” [...]

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