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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenserâs Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene . -- .
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Isabel Maccaffrey award for best book or article
'There is high-quality work here, including clear scholarship from Andrew Zurcher on the printing of the Cantos, a delightful essay from Richard Danson Brown on Spenser's diction, and outstanding analysis of the poem's Lucretian metaphysics from Ayesha Ramachandran. The most innovative contribution comes from Grogan herself as she traces the Mutabilitie Cantos' reception via Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This final delicately written essay stands out for its political and literary subtlety and encapsulates something of the allusive brilliance of Spenser's voice itself.'
The TLS, 3/12/2010
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Table of ContentsList of Figures and Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Jane Grogan (University College Dublin): Introduction
1. Gordon Teskey (Harvard University): Night Thoughts on Mutability
2. Andrew Zurcher (Queens’ College, Cambridge): The Printing of the
Cantos of Mutabilitie in 1609
3. Robert Lanier Reid (Emory & Henry College): Spenser’s Mutability
Song: Conclusion or Transition?
4. James Nohrnberg (University of Virginia): Supplementing Spenser’s
Supplement, a Masque in Several Scenes: Eight Literary-Critical
Meditations on a Renaissance Numen Called Mutabilitie
5. Thomas Herron (East Carolina University): Native Irish Property and
Propriety in the Faunus Episode and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
6. Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University): Mutability, Metamorphosis and the Nature of Power
7. Christopher Burlinson (Jesus College, Cambridge): Spenser’s ‘Legend
of Constancie’: Book VII and the Ethical Reader
8. Ayesha Ramachandran (Stony Brook University): Mutabilitie’s
Lucretian Metaphysics: Skepticism and Cosmic Process in Spenser’s
Cantos
9. Judith H. Anderson (Indiana University): Mutability and Mortality:
Reading Spenser
10. Richard Danson Brown (Open University): ‘I would abate the
sternesse of my stile’: Diction and Poetic Subversion in Two
Cantos of Mutabilitie
11. Jane Grogan (University College Dublin): After the Mutabilitie
Cantos: Yeats and Heaney Reading Spenser
Bibliography of the Mutabilitie Cantos
Index
