Spenser's Language

Spenser and Archaism

'A necessarie Catalogue, of the most hardest olde English words': a 1582 hard-word list from Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum
(contributed by David Scott Wilson-Okamura)
'The old and obscure words of Chaucer, explaned': Speght's hard-word list from the 1598 edition of Chaucer's Works
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Spenser's Spellings
An alphabetical list of all Spenser's known spellings, compiled from autograph manuscript sources.
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Literary Theory, Rhetoric, and Prosody
A collection of materials relating to Spenser's allegory, rhetoric, and versification.
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