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Edmund Spenser - A Life (Hardcover)
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Edmund Spenser - A Life (Hardcover)
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Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in
the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally
flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless
colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's
arse-kissing poet'- a man on the make who aspired to be at court
and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted. In
his vibrant and vivid book, 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? Spenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our
preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory
relationship between his between life and his art.
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