Research Catalog

Title

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser.

Author

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599

Publication

London : William Pickering, 1839.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitford, John, 1781-1859
• Pickering, William, 1796-1854
• Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876

Description

5 v. : port.; 17cm.

Series Statement

The Aldine edition of the British poets

Uniform Title

Aldine edition of the British poets

Alternative Title

Poems of Edmund Spenser in five volumes

Subjects

• Poetry
• Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (in the Life of Edmund Spenser).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

v. I. Introductory sonnets / J.M. ; The life of Edmund Spenser / by the Rev. J. Mitford ; The faerie queene. [Author's preliminaries] ; Book I-II -- v. II. The faerie queene. Book II (continued)-IV -- v. III. The faerie queene. Book IV (continued)-VI -- v. IV. The faerie queene. Book VI (continued) ; Miscellanies. Colin Clouts come home againe ; Virgils gnat ; The shepheards calendar : containing twelve aeglogues, proportionable to the twelve months -- v. V. Fowre hymnes. An hymne in honour of love ; An hymne in honour of beautie ; An hymne of heavenly love ; An hymne of heavenly beautie ; Three visions. The visions of Petrarch, formerly translated ; The visions of Bellay ; Visions of the worlds vanitie ; Prosopoia, or, Mother Hubbafds tale ; Prothalamoin, or, A spousall verse ; Epithalamion ; Poems ; Amoretti, or sonnets ; Daphnaida : an elegie upon the death of the most noble and valorous knight, Sir Philip Sidney ; The doleful lay of Clorinda ; The mourning music of Thestylis ; A pastoral eglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney ; An elegie, or Friends passion for his Astrophil ; An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney ; Another of the same ; The teares of the Muses ; The ruines of Rome ; The ruines of time ; Muipotmos, or, The fate of the butterflie ; Brittain's Ida.

OCLC

• 747894
• SCSB-11770048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library