A Concordance to the Rhymes of the Faerie Queene

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This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem: the rhymes which he used to structure its intricate stanzas. As well as the main concordance to the rhymes, the volume features a wealth of ancillary materials, which will be of valu

Reviews

'Essential reading for Spenserians and students of English prosody.'
Craig A. Berry, Independent Scholar

'Brown and Lethbridge have produced a book that no one who is seriously interested in poetry can afford to ignore.'
Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

'The devoted editors of this volume have given us a remarkable tool, or set of tools, with which we can now better trace the intertwined networks of sound and sense in The Faerie Queene.'
Kenneth Gross, author of Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic and Shakespeares Noise

Author Bio

Richard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University

J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tbingen University