Principal Works
The Shepheardes Calendar: Conteyning Twelve Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes 1579
*The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues [Books I-III] 1590
Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie 1591
Amoretti and Epithalamion 1595
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe 1595
†The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Moral Vertues: The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, Containing the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes 1596
Fowre Hymnes 1596
Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse 1596
‡Three Proper, and Wittie, Familiar Letters Lately Passed between Two Universitie Men: Touching the Earthquake in Aprill Last, and Our English Reformed Versifying (letters) 1580
The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Varorium Edition [11 vols.] (poetry and prose) 1932-57
*This work was not published in its entirety until 1609, when the two “Cantos of Mutabilitie” were added.
†This work includes a revision of the earlier The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues [Books I-III]
‡This work also includes letters written by Gabriel Harvey.
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