The Spenser Encyclopedia

Since its appearance in 1990, The Spenser Encyclopedia has become the reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser (1552-99), offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works, and influence.

A. C. HAMILTON is Cappon Professor of English at Queen's University. He is the author of a number of books including Sir Philip Sidney: A Study of His Life and Works; Northrop Frye: Anatomy of His Criticism; and The Early Shakespeare. DONALD CHENEY is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Spenser's Image of Nature (1966), translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filocolo (1985), and co-editor of The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990).