Spenser: The Faerie Queene, 2nd Edition
<P></P> <P><EM>The Faerie Queene</EM> 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 <EM>The Faerie Queene</EM> itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. </P> <P>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 <EM>The Faerie Queene.</EM></P>