This research guide will connect you to reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, and other information sources on Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), author of the English Renaissance epic, "The Faerie Queene."
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"Edmund Spenser," from Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers: Third Series
"Spenser, Edmund," from Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature, Vol. 4
"Spenser, Edmund," from The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Click on any link below to run a search in the online catalog, for all books and other materials on that subject in, or accessible through, the Gumberg Library.
On Spenser
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All of these resources can be accessed from off-campus, but you will need to enter your Multipass username and password when you click on a link below.
To access electronic resources off campus you will need to enter your Multipass information
See the "Faerie Queen" episode from the BBC TV program The Secret Life of Books
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This research guide was created by Elsa Buehler, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, April 2020