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Volume XVII, 2003

M. L. Donnelly
The Life of Vergil and the Aspirations of the "New Poet"

Benedict S. Robinson
The "Secret Faith" of Spenser's Saracens

Andrew Escobedo
Despair and the Proportion of the Self

Beth Quitslund
Despair and the Composition of the Self

Ty Buckman
"Just Time Expired": Succession Anxieties and the Wandering Suitor in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Judith H. Anderson
Busirane's Place: The House of Rhetoric

Mary R. Bowman
Distressing Irena: Gender, Conquest, and Justice in Book V of The Faerie Queene

Lin Kelsey
Spenser, Ralegh, and the Language of Allegory

Alan Stewart and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.
'Worme-eaten, and full of canker holes': Materializing Memory in The Faerie Queene and Lingua

Clare R. Kinney
"Beleeve this butt a fiction": Female Authorship, Narrative Undoing, and the Limits of Romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania

David Scott Wilson-Okamura
Republicanism, Nostalgia, and the Crowd

Andrew Hadfield
Was Spenser Really a Republican After All?: A Response to David Scott Wilson-Okamura

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Contents of Past Issues

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Volume XVI, 2002

Roger Kuin
The Double Helix: Private and Public in The Faerie Queene

Laurel Hendrix
Pulchritudo vincit?: Emblematic Reversals in Spenser's House of Busirane

Frank Ardolino
The Effect of the Defeat of the Spanish Armada on Spenser's Complaints

Lee Piepho
The Shepheardes Calender and Neo-Latin Pastoral: A Book Newly Discovered to Have Been Owned by Spenser

D. Allen Carroll
Thomas Watson and the 1588 MS Commendation of The Faerie Queene: Reading the Rebuses

Clare R. Kinney
"What s/he ought to have been": Romancing Truth in Spencer Redivivus

Jialuan Hu
Spenser in Chinese Translation

Scott Lucas
Diggon Davie and Davy Dicar: Edmund Spenser, Thomas Churchyard, and the Poetics of Public Protest

Hannibal Hamlin
Another Version of Pastoral: English Renaissance Translations of Psalm 23

Barbara Brumbaugh
Temples Defaced and Altars in the Dust: Edwardian and Elizabethan Church Reform and Sidney's "Now Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light

Robert E. Stillman
Deadly Stinging Adders: Sidney's Piety, Philippism, and the Defence of Poesy

Gleanings

Matthew Steggle
Weighing Winged Words: An intertext in The Faerie Queene V.ii




Volume XV, 2001

Susanne Woods
Making Free with Poetry: Spenser and the Rhetoric of Choice

Kenneth Borris
Flesh, Spirit, and the Glorified Body: Spenser's Anthropomorphic Houses of Pride, Holiness, and Temperance

Joseph D. Parry
Phaedria and Guyon: Traveling Alone in The Faerie Queene, Book II

Kyong-Hahn Kim
The Nationalist Drive of Spenserian Hermaphrodism in The Faerie Queene

Donald Stump
Fashioning Gender: Cross-Dressing in Spenser's Legend of Britomart and Artegall

Joseph Black
'Pan is Hee': Commending The Faerie Queene

James Fleming
A View from the Bridge: Ireland and Violence in Spenser's Amoretti

Christopher Warley
'An English box': Calvinism and Commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner

Spenser and Ralegh: Four Papers in Exchange

William A. Oram
What did Spenser Really Think of Sir Walter Ralegh When He Published His First Installment of The Faerie Queene?

Wayne Erickson
Spenser Reads Ralegh's Poetry in(to) the 1590 Faerie Queene

Jerome S. Dees
Colin Clout and the Shepherd of the Ocean

Michael Rudick
Three Views on Ralegh and Spenser: A Comment

Gleanings

Andrew Hadfield
Spenser and Chaucer: The Knight's Tale and Artegall's Response to the Giant with the Scales (Faerie Queene V.ii.41-42)

Richard F. Hardin
Spenser's Aesculapius Episode and the English Mummer's Play

Forum

Lydia M. McGrew
A Neglected Gauntlet: J.W. Bennett and the Date of Amoretti 62

Alexander Dunlop
Sonnet LXII and Beyond




Volume XIV, 2000

Andrew Hadfield
William Kent's Illustrations of The Faerie Queene

Gail Cohee
'To Fashion a Noble Person': Spenser's Readers and the Politics of Gender

Piotr Sadowski
Spenser's 'golden squire' and 'golden Meane': Numbers and Proportions in Book II of The Faerie Queene

Margaret Christian
'Waves of weary wretchednesse': Florimell and the Sea

Mark Hazard
The Other Apocalypse: Spenser's Use of 2 Esdras in the Book of Justice

Anne Lake Prescott
Foreign Policy in Fairyland: Henri IV and Spenser's Burbon

Douglas A. Northrop
The Uncertainty of Courtesy in Book VI of The Faerie Queene

Lin Kelsey and Richard S. Peterson
Rereading Colin's Broken Pipe: Spenser and the Problem of Patronage

Barbara Brumbaugh
'Under the pretty tales of Wolves and Sheep': Sidney's Ambassadorial Table Talk and Protestant Hunting Dialogues

Elizabeth See Watson
Spenser's Flying Dragon and Pope Gregory XIII

Thomas Herron
Irish Den of Thieves: Souterrains (and a Crannog?) in Books V and VI of Spenser's Faerie Queene




Volume XIII, 1999

Nancy Lindheim
The Virgilian Design of The Shepheardes Calender

Sherri Geller
You Can't Tell a Book by its Contents: (Mis)Interpretation in/of Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender

Lynette C. Black
Prudence in Book II of The Faerie Queene

Matthew A. Fike
Spenser's Merlin Reconsidered

Kenneth Gross
Reflections on the Blatant Beast

Maria R. Rohr Philmus
The Case of the Spenserian Sonnet: A Curious Re-Creation

Mark David Rasmussen
Spenser's Plaintive Muses

Craig Rustici
Muiopotmos: Spenser's "Complaint" against Aesthetics

Mary Joan Cook
The Other Meaning of "Bridal Day" in Spenser's Prothalamion

Kenneth Borris
Elizabethan Allegorical Epics: The Arcadias as Counterparts of The Faerie Queene

Stephen M. Buhler
Pre-Christian Apologetics in Spenser and Sidney: Pagan Philosophy and the Process of METANOIA

Chauncey Wood
"With Wit My Wit Is Marred": Reason, Wit, and Wittiness in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella

Forum

Jean R. Brink
Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield

Carol V. Kaske
The Word "Checklaton" and the Authorship of A Vewe

A. Kent Hieatt
Male Boldness and Female Rights: What the Isle of Venus Proposes

Gleanings

Tom Parker
108 Uses of 108

Elizabeth Porges Watson
Mr. Fox's Mottoes in the House of Busirane




Volume XII, 1998

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Richard S. Peterson
Laurel Crown and Ape's Tail: New Light on Spenser's Career from Sir Thomas Tresham

Germain Warkentin
Robert Sidney's "Darcke Offerings": The Making of a Late Tudor Manuscript Canzoniere

Christopher Highley
Spenser and the Bards

Maryclaire Moroney
Spenser's Dissolution: Monasticism and Ruins in The Faerie Queene and The Vewe of the Present State of Ireland

Sue Petitt Starke
Briton Knight or Irish Bard? Spenser's Pastoral Personal and the Epic Project in A View and Colin Clouts

John Breen
"Imaginatiue Groundplot": A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland

Mercedes Maroto Camino
"Methinks I see an evil lurk unespied": Visualizing Conquest in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland

Forum

Andrew Hadfield
Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink

Gleanings

Kerri Lynne Thomsen
A Note on Spenser's Translation of Culex

John E. Curran, Jr.
Florimell's "Vaine Feare": Horace's Ode 1:23 in The Faerie Queene III.vii.1

Philip C. Dust
Donne's "The Damp" as a Gloss on Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I

Willy Maley
Sir Philip Sidney and Ireland




Vol XI, 1994

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Nancy Lindheim
Spenser's Virgilian Pastoral: The Case for September

Leslie T. Whipp
Spenser's November Eclogue

Anthony Esolen
Spenserian Chaos: Lucretius in The Faerie Queene

Jeffrey P. Fruen
The Faery Queen Unveiled? Five Glimpses of Gloriana

Gregory Wilkin
Spenser's Rehabilitation of the Templars

Lawrence F. Rhu
Romancing the Word: Pre-texts and Contexts for the Errour Episode

Wendy Raudenbush Olmsted
Deconstruction and Spenser's Allegory

Richard Mallette
Book Five of The Faerie Queene: An Elizabethan Apocalypse

Elizabeth J. Bellamy
The Aesthetics of Decline: Locating the Post-Epic in Literary History

Theodore L. Steinberg
Spenser, Sidney and the Myth of Astrophel

Jean R. Brink
Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland

Gleanings

Anne Lake Prescott
Triumphing over Death and Sin




Volume X, 1992

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A. Kent Hieatt
The Alleged Early Modern Origin of the Self and History: Terminate or Regroup?

Anthony Di Matteo
Spenser's Venus-Virgo: The Poetics and Interpretive History of a Dissembling Figure

Paula Blank
The Dialect of the Shepheardes Calender

Elizabeth Harris Sagasner
Gathered in Time: Form, Meter (and Parentheses) in The Shepheardes Calender

Lisa M. Klein
"Let us love, dear love, lyke as we ought": Protestant Marriage and the Revision of Petrarchan Loving in Spenser's Amoretti

Wayne Erickson
Spenser's Letter to Ralegh and the Literary Politics of The Faerie Queene's 1590 Publication

James Schiavone
Predestination and Free Will: The Crux of Canto Ten

Christopher Martin
Turning Others' Leaves: Astrophil's Untimely Defeat

Greg Walker
"Ordered Confusion"?: The Crisis of Authority in Skelton's Speke, Parott

Roland Greene
Calling Colin Clout

Elizabeth Fowler
Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer

Gleanings

Nathaniel Wallace
Talus: Spenser's Iron Man




Volume IX, 1991

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Bruce Thornton
Rural Dialectic: Pastoral, Georgic, and The Shepheardes Calender

Louis Waldman
Spenser's Pseudonym "E.K." and Humanist Self-Naming

Shohachi Fukuda
The Numerological Patterning of Amoretti and Epithalamion

James H. Morey
Spenser's Mythic Adaptations in Muiopotmos

Margaret Christian
"The ground of Storie": Genealogy in The Faerie Queene

Donald V. Stump
The Two Deaths of Mary Stuart: Historical Allegory in Spenser's Book of Justice

Debra Belt
Hostile Audiences and the Courteous Reader in The Faerie Queene, Book VI

Margaret P. Hannay
"My Sheep are Thoughts": Self-Reflexive Pastoral in The Faerie Queene, Book VI and the New Arcadia

Stanley Stewart
Spenser and the Judgment of Paris

Anne Shaver
Rereading Mirabella

Willy Maley
Spenser and Ireland: A Select Bibliography

Forum

A. Kent Hieatt
Arthur's Deliverance of Rome? (Yet Again)

Gleanings

Ruth Samson Luborsky
The Illustrations to The Shepheardes Calender: II

Alex A. Vardanis
The Temptations of Despaire: Jeffers and The Faerie Queene




Volume VIII, 1990

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Roland Greene
The Shepheardes Calendar, Dialogue, and Periphrasis

Robert Cummings
Spenser's "Twelve Private Morall Virtues"

Anthony M. Esolen
Irony and the Pseudo-physical in The Faerie Queene

Richard T. Neuse
Planting Words in the Soul: Spenser's Socratic Garden of Adonis

Mark Heberle
The Limitations of Friendship

Julia Lupton
Home-Making in Ireland: Virgil's Eclogue I and Book VI of The Faerie Queene

Michael Trainer
"The thing S. Paule ment by . . . the courteousness that he spake of": Religious Sources for Book VI of The Faerie Queene

Kenneth Borris
"Diuelish Ceremonies": Allegorical Satire of Protestant Extremism in The Faerie Queene VI.viii.31-51

Patrick Cheney
The Old Poet Presents Himself: Prothalamion as a Defense of Spenser's Career

S. K. Heninger, Jr.
Spenser and Sidney at Leicester House

Roger Kuin
The Gaps and the Whites: Indeterminacy and Undecideability in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare

Greg Kucich
The Duality of Romantic Spenserianism

Forum

Joseph Loewenstein
A Note on the Structure of Spenser's Amoretti: Viper Thoughts

Carol Kaske
Rethinking Loewenstein's "Viper Thoughts"

John N. Wall, Jr.
Orion Once More: Revisiting the Sky over Faerieland

A. Kent Hieatt
The Projected Continuation of The Faerie Queene: Rome Delivered?

Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
A Reponse to A. Kent Hieatt




Volume VII, 1987

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Richard Mallette
The Protestant Art of Preaching in Book One of The Faerie Queene

Shirley Clay Scott
From Polydorus to Fradubio: The History of a Topos

T. M. Krier
The Mysteries of the Muses: Spenser's Faerie Queene, II.3, and the Epic Tradition of the Goddess Observed

John N. Wall, Jr.
Orion's Flaming Head: Spenser's Faerie Queene, II.ii.46 and the Feast of the Twelve Days of Christmas

Philip Rollinson
Arthur, Maleger, and the Interpretation of The Faerie Queene

Kenneth Borris
Fortune, Occasion, and the Allegory of the Quest in Book Six of The Faerie Queene

Jeffrey P. Fruen
True Glorious Type: The Place of Gloriana in The Faerie Queene

Richard C. Frushell
Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Schools

Roy Neil Graves
Two Newfound Poems by Edmund Spenser: The Buried Short-Line Runes in Epithalamion and Prothalamion

Christopher Martin
Sidney and the Limits of Eros

Peggy Muñoz Simonds
Eros and Anteros in Shakespeare's Sonnets 153 and 154: An Iconographical Study

Forum

Anne Lake Prescott
Response to Deborah Cartmell (Volume VI)

Gleanings

James Vink
A Concealed Figure in the Woodcut to the "January" Eclogue




Volume VI, 1986

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John N. King
Was Spenser a Puritan?

Anne Lake Prescott
The Thirsty Deer and the Lord of Life: Some Contexts for Amoretti 67-70

Deborah Cartmell
'Beside the shore of siluer streaming Thamesis': Spenser's Ruines of Time

Pamela J. Benson
Florimell at Sea: The Action of Grace in Faerie Queene, Book III

Harold L. Weatherby
AXIOCHUS and the Bower of Bliss: Some Fresh Light on Sources and Authorship

David O. Frantz
The Union of Florimell and Marinell: The Triumph of Hearing

Louise Schleiner
Spenser and Sidney on the Vaticinium

David J. Baker
'Some Quirk, Some Subtle Evasion': Legal Subversion in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland

Margaret P. Hannay
Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke




Volume V, 1985

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Kathryn Walls
Abessa and the Lion: The Faerie Queene, I.3.1-12

Jacqueline T. Miller
The Status of Faeryland: Spenser's 'Vniust Possession'

David W. Burchmore
Triamond, Agape, and the Fates: Neoplatonic Cosmology in Spenser's Legend of Friendship

R.J. Manning
'Deuicefull Sights': Spenser's Emblematic Practice in The Faerie Queene, V.1-3

Seth Weiner
Minims and Grace Notes: Spenser's Acidalian Vision and Sixteenth-Century Music

Harold L. Weatherby
The Old Theology: Spenser's Dame Nature and the Transfiguration

Carol A. Stillman
Politics, Precedence, and the Order of the Dedicatory Sonnets in The Faerie Queene

Douglas Anderson
'Vnto My Selfe Alone': Spenser's Plenary Epithalamion

Seth Lehrer
The Rhetoric of Fame: Stephen Hawes's Aureate Diction

Mason Tung
Spenser's 'Emblematic' Imagery: A Study of Emblematics

Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
Autobiographical Elements in Sidney's Astrophil and Stella

E. Malcolm Parkinson
Sidney's Portrayal of Mounted Combat with Lances

Jeffrey L. Spear
'The Gardin of Proserpina This High': Ruskin's Application of Spenser and Horizons of Reception




Volume IV, 1984

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Donald Cheney
Spenser's Fortieth Birthday and Related Fictions

William A. Oram
Elizabethan Fact and Spenserian Fiction

James P. Bednarz
Ralegh in Spenser's Historical Allegory

Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
The Menace of Despair and Arthur's Vision, Faerie Queene I.9

Hugh MacLachlan
The Death of Guyon and the Elizabethan Book of Homilies

Russell J. Meyer
"Fixt in heauens hight": Spenser, Astronomy, and the Date of the Cantos of Muabilitie

Elizabeth Bieman
"Sometimes I...mask in myrth lyke to a Comedy": Spenser's Amoretti

Mary I. Oates
Fowre Hymnes: Spenser's Retractions of Paradise




Volume III, 1982

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Seth Weiner
Spenser's Study of English Syllables and Its Completion by Thomas Campion

Andrew V. Ettin
The Georgics in The Faerie Queene

Harold L. Weatherby
"Pourd out in Loosenesse"

Donald V. Stump
Isis Versus Mercilla: The Allegorical Shrines in Spenser's Legend of Justice

Eamon Grennan
Language and Politics: A Note on Some Metaphors in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland

Donald Cheney
Tarquin, Juliet, and other Romei

Dennis Moore
Philisides and Mira: Autobiographical Allegory in the Old Arcadia

Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
Astrophil and Stella: A Radical Reading

John Hollander
Observations on a Select Party




Volume II, 1981

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Ruth Samson Luborsky
The Illustrations to The Shepheardes Calender

Ronald B. Bond
Supplantation in the Elizabethan Court: The Theme of Spenser's February Eclogue

Louis Adrian Montrose
Interpreting Spenser's February Eclogue: Some Contexts and Implications

L. Staley Johnson
Elizabeth, Bride and Queen: A Study of Spenser's April Eclogue and the Metaphors of English Protestantism

David W. Burchmore
The Medieval Sources of Spenser's Occasion Episode

Walter R. Davis
The Houses of Mortality in Book II of The Faerie Queene

William A. Oram
Daphnaida and Spenser's Later Poetry

Carl J. Rasmussen
"How Weak Be the Passions of Woefulness": Spenser's Ruines of Time

Andrew Fichter
"And nought of Rome in Rome perceiu'st at all": Spenser's Ruines of Rome

Roy T. Eriksen
"Un certo amoroso martire": Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle" and Giordano Bruno's De gli eroici furori

Sybil Lutz Severance
"Some Other Figure": The Vision of Change in Flowres of Sion, 1623

Elaine V. Beilin
"The Onely Perfect Vertue": Constancy in Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus




Volume I, 1980

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Carl J. Rasmussen
"Quietnesse of Minde": A Theatre for Worldlings as a Protestant Poetics

Ruth Samson Luborsky
The Allusive Presentation of The Shepheardes Calender

Bruce R. Smith
On Reading The Shepheardes Calender

Judith M. Kennedy
The Final Emblem of The Shepheardes Calender

Alexander Dunlop
The Drama of Amoretti

Margreta De Grazia
Babbling Will in Shake-speares Sonnets 127-154

Hugh MacLachlan
The "carelesse heauens": A Study of Revenge and Atonement in The Faerie Queene

Antoinette B. Dauber
The Art of Veiling in the Bower of Bliss

Maren-Sofie Røstvig
Canto Structure in Tasso and Spenser

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What's To Come

Volume XX, In Press

Robert Ellrodt
Fundamental Modes of Thought, Imagination, and Sensibility in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser

William Oram
Spenser in Search of an Audience

Christine Coch
The Trials of Art: Testing Temperance in the Bower of Bliss and Diana's Grove at Nonsuch

Ayesha Ramachandran
Clarion in the Bower of Bliss

Emily Bernhard Jackson
'Ah, who can love the worker of her smart?'

Rebecca Yearling
Florimel's Girdle: Reconfiguring Chastity in The Faerie Queene

Hossein Peernajmudin
The 'antique guize': Persia in The Faerie Queene

D. Allen Carroll
Reflections, Primarily Lexical, on the Meaning of 'E.K.'

Steven May Henry Gurney, a Norfolk Farmer, Reads Spenser and Others

Tamara Goelglein
Reading English Ramist Logic Books as Modern Emblem Books: The Case of Abraham Fraunce

Gleanings

Anthony Miller
Red Crosses's Imprisonment and Foxe's Inquisition

Jason Lawrence
Calidore fra i pastori: Spenser's Return to Tasso in The Faerie Queene Book VI

Jim Shiavoni
Spenser's Augustine

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