The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics)

The Shorter Poems (Penguin Classics)

<p>Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.<br />Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex metrical forms.<br />The range of this volume allows him to emerge fully in the varied and conflicting personae he adopted, as satirist and eulogist, elegist and lover, polemicist and prophet.<br />The volume includes The Shepeardes Calender, Complaints, and A Theatre for Wordlings.</p>