All in all, it is a major work of scholarship, combining a meticulously prepared text with splendid annotation. It will last, and will help inspire new generations of readers. "Tom MacFaul, Notes and Queries" Hamilton's edition of the Faerie Queene is indispensable to any serious scholar of Spenser. Amazon.co.uk review
All in all, it is a major work of scholarship, combining a meticulously prepared text with splendid annotation. It will last, and will help inspire new generations of readers. "Tom MacFaul, Notes and Queries" Hamilton's edition of the Faerie Queene is indispensable to any serious scholar of Spenser. Amazon.co.uk review
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"The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that "has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of "The Faerie Queene" itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in "The Faerie Queene"
Book I Canto i
Canto: Ital. ‘song’ used, e.g. by Ariosto; here first used in English for the twelve divisions of a book, the usual epic division from Homer (24) by way of Virgil (12). Drayton 1931–41:2.5 comments: ‘The Italians use Canto’s; and so our first late great Reformer, Master Spenser’. (查看原文)
Considered to be an essential ingredient in literary creativity, the curtain of Variety casts its shadow upon a great many authors through whom secret scripts of a full-spectrumed society are displayed. Essentially a device to explore humanity, these ...
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编辑居然是两个日本人
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编辑居然是两个日本人