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Spenser, Edmund11
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)4
Thomas Nelson & Sons1
West, Gilbert (1703-1756)1
Spenser1
Potter, Robert (1721-1804)1
Lang, Jeanie1
Le Quesne, Rose1
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Title: Description of death

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.xi.21-22, comparing death to an archer armed with

deadly arrows, and describing his ghastly appearance

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Title: Danger

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 (published) 1596 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", III.xii.11, and part of IV.x.16, describing the dreadful

appearance of Danger

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Title: Dispair

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: Part of "The Faerie Queene", I.ix.35, describing the appearance of Despair

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Title: Harmony

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.xii.70, describing the music heard at the Bower of

Bliss

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Title: Discord

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1596 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", IV.i.20-22, 24 (omitting 24.3), describing the

underground dwelling-place of Ate, representing discord

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Title: Disdain

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Date(s): 1590 and 1596 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 15

Contents: "The Faerie Queene", II.vii,40 (part)-41 and VI.vii.41,43, describing the

dreadful appearance and nature of Disdain

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Stories from the Faerie Queen

Lang, Jeanie; Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Le Quesne, Rose; Thomas Nelson & Sons

[19--?]

Half-title. Editor of series, Louey Chisholm.

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Spenser, Edmund

Attribution: Spenser

Date(s): 1579 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 84

Contents: On a long life lived uncomplainingly despite mixed fortune. Altered extract from Edmund Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar", II,17-22.

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A farewell hymne to the country : Attempted in the manner of Spenser's Epithalamion

Potter, Robert (1721-1804); Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

1749

Title page vignette.

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Spencer redivivus : containing the first book of the Fairy Queen, his essential design preserv'd, but his obsolete language and manner of verse totally laid aside : deliver'd in heroick numbers

Person of quality; Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

1687

Signatures: A-P⁸, Q⁴ (A1 a blank). C3 signed C5. K5 is a cancel. Anon.

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A canto of the Fairy Queen

West, Gilbert (1703-1756); Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

1739

Atkinson 69-70. First edition.

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