The Shepheardes Calender

University Park; London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo in tan boards in rust-colored jacket; Near fine copy; clean and tight; small marker dot on bottom edge of leaves, and foxing to edges of book block; Jacket is very good; slightest edgewear; spine is sunned and there is a small chip to bottom edge of jacket; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 02710066994

"The Shepeardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem its literary, social, political, and cultural context, contributing to our understanding of the relationship between Spenser and his times." --Jacket copy.