''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.