Edmund Spenser: A Life st. john debating the nature of piety

debating the nature of piety

begun with Shadow of Empire and Enemy in the Dark

he transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala

intimate correspondence with friends

Edmund Spenser: A Life st. john debating the nature of pietyAuthor Contributor(s): Hadfield, Andrew Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Date: 12 10 2014 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse kissing poet' a man on the make who aspired to be at court