Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography
Anderson, Judith H. / Cheney, Donald / USA), David A. Richardson (Professor of English, Cleveland State University, The first "life" of Edmund Spenser was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions. These nine essays explore the received tradition of Spenser's autobiographical portrait and suggest strategies for reinterpreting it to an audience newly sensitive to problems of artistic self-presentation.