Spenser Studies: a Renaissance Poetry Annual I by Cullen, Patrick and Thomas P. Roche, Jr - 1980

Pittsburgh, PA: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Green cloth binding lettered in gold, a little faded at spine; page block edges a little yellowed. No dust jacket, as issued. Book is square, tightly bound, and clean inside and out. Much on Spenser--especially three studies on "The Shepheardes Calender"--plus studies on Jan Van Der Noot (who was translated by the adolescent Spenser), on Shakespeare's sonnets, and on Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Contributions by Carl J. Rasmussen, Ruth Samson Luborsky, Bruce R. Smith, Judith M. Kennedy, Alexander Dunlop, Margreta de Grazia, and others. 200 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.