{"product_id":"edmund-spenser-a-life-paperback","title":"Edmund Spenser: A Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Hadfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund 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\u003cbr\u003emake who aspired to be at court and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his vibrant and vivid book, the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to\u003cbr\u003ethe good and the great Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I and James VI? Why was he more at home with 'the middling sort' -- writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen -- than with the mighty and the powerful? How\u003cbr\u003edid the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory relationship between his between life and his art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Hadfield\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Grenada. He is author of a number of works on early modern literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454588829874,"sku":"9780198703006","price":40.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8c6b1b2c88a8ee16fe217f3f886ae299.webp?v=1778855158","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/edmund-spenser-a-life-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}