Introduction: Spenser's paratexts.(Edmund Spenser)

From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

With the exception of Edmund Spenser's Letter to Ralegh, the front and back matter of the 1590 Faerie Queene has only recently become a topic of literary discussion. (1) Thomas Wharton spoke famously of Spenser's having written the Dedicatory Sonnets "in compliance with a disgraceful custom, or rather in obedience to the established tyranny of patronage," and the number of these sonnets and their elaborate humility has made them an embarrassment to some critics (Var. 3:307). (2) This disdain has not served us well, for it has left us without a sense of the norms of dedicatory ...

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