ABSTRACT

'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains
Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:
* appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own
* understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems
* easy to find entries arranged by subject.

chapter |10 pages

Acidale

chapter |6 pages

Adonis, gardens of

chapter |1 pages

Aesculapius

chapter |13 pages

Agrippa

chapter |19 pages

alexandrine

chapter |66 pages

allegory, historical

chapter |54 pages

apples

chapter |21 pages

Arthur in The Faerie Queene

chapter |3 pages

Aylett, Robert

chapter |3 pages

baffling and degradation

chapter |15 pages

baroque

chapter |21 pages

Belphoebe

chapter |7 pages

birds

chapter |5 pages

Blandina, Turpine

chapter |28 pages

Boccaccio, Giovanni

chapter |1 pages

Boyle family

chapter |1 pages

Bracidas, Amidas

chapter |4 pages

Braggadocchio

chapter |1 pages

Briana

chapter |25 pages

bridges

chapter |16 pages

Bunyan, John

chapter |21 pages

Caelia

chapter |27 pages

canto

chapter |15 pages

Chaucer, Geoffrey

chapter |2 pages

Christine de Pisan

chapter |5 pages

chronicles

chapter |30 pages

Chrysogone

chapter |1 pages

Ciceronianism

chapter |19 pages

Circe

chapter |13 pages

Colin Clout

chapter |12 pages

Complaints

chapter |13 pages

Complaints: The Teares of the Muses

chapter |6 pages

Complaints: Visions

chapter |7 pages

constellations

chapter |4 pages

Corflambo, Poeana

chapter |17 pages

court

chapter |41 pages

Crabbe, George

chapter |6 pages

dialect

chapter |9 pages

Diana

chapter |30 pages

Dixon, John

chapter |2 pages

echo, resonance

chapter |2 pages

ecphrasis

chapter |7 pages

Eden

chapter |29 pages

Elizabeth, images of

chapter |9 pages

emblems

chapter |21 pages

Epithalamion epithalamium

chapter |54 pages

fabliau

chapter |9 pages

The Faerie Queene, Book V

chapter |41 pages

The Faerie Queene, Book VI

chapter |1 pages

Fanchin, Molanna

chapter |1 pages

Fanshawe, Richard

chapter |34 pages

fantasy literature

chapter |17 pages

foundlings

chapter |14 pages

French Renaissance literature

chapter |39 pages

Gascoigne, George

chapter |4 pages

Gray, Thomas

chapter |15 pages

Grey, Arthur, fourteenth Baron of Wilton

chapter |16 pages

Harington, John

chapter |1 pages

Henryson, Robert

chapter |9 pages

heraldry

chapter |1 pages

Herbert family

chapter |6 pages

Hercules

chapter |70 pages

hermits

chapter |3 pages

identity

chapter |47 pages

idols, idolatry

chapter |23 pages

Ireland, the historical context

chapter |24 pages

Joyce, James

chapter |2 pages

labyrinths, mazes

chapter |7 pages

Lamb, Charles

chapter |12 pages

Latin literature

chapter |3 pages

letter as genre

chapter |64 pages

letters, Spenser’s and Harvey’s

chapter |13 pages

masque

chapter |5 pages

Medina, Elissa, Perissa

chapter |10 pages

Melville, Herman

chapter |7 pages

Mercury

chapter |2 pages

metaphor, simile

chapter |10 pages

Milton, John

chapter |2 pages

The Mirror for Magistrates

chapter |5 pages

mirrors

chapter |5 pages

Montemayor, Jorge de

chapter |8 pages

Munera, Pollente

chapter |4 pages

mutability

chapter |33 pages

mysteries

chapter |26 pages

narrator of The Faerie Queene

chapter |74 pages

neologism

chapter |1 pages

Peacham, Henry

chapter |6 pages

Peele, George

chapter |5 pages

Petrarch, Petrarchism

chapter |3 pages

Phaedria

chapter |6 pages

Philotime

chapter |3 pages

places, allegorical

chapter |2 pages

plants, herbs

chapter |8 pages

Platonism

chapter |5 pages

poet, role of the

chapter |9 pages

poet’s poet, the

chapter |4 pages

Ponsonby, William

chapter |2 pages

predestination

chapter |12 pages

primitivism

chapter |4 pages

Prothalamion

chapter |14 pages

proverbs

chapter |4 pages

psychology, Platonic

chapter |8 pages

psychomachia

chapter |6 pages

puritanism

chapter |4 pages

Pythagoras

chapter |56 pages

quest

chapter |15 pages

rhetoric

chapter |6 pages

rhyme

chapter |37 pages

Rich, Barnaby

chapter |35 pages

Rome

chapter |55 pages

Scudamore family

chapter |1 pages

ship imagery

chapter |3 pages

Sidney, Philip

chapter |14 pages

Sidney, Robert

chapter |28 pages

sonnet, sonnet sequence

chapter |2 pages

stones, precious

chapter |19 pages

style

chapter |19 pages

Teares of the Muses temperance

chapter |18 pages

time

chapter |8 pages

topos

chapter |17 pages

trees

chapter |4 pages

Turbervile, George

chapter |1 pages

Una’s lamb

chapter |4 pages

Upton, John

chapter |7 pages

Vanitie, Visions of the Worlds veils

chapter |35 pages

Verdant

chapter |14 pages

Visions of Bellay Visions of Petrarch

chapter |62 pages

Wilson, Thomas

chapter |67 pages

rati

chapter |48 pages

General Bibliography