This is the first full-length study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. Hazel Wilkinson discusses editions of Spenser's work and the response of readers to them, exploring Spenser's influence on the history of the book and shedding new light on eighteenth-century literature, art, architecture, and music.

The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.