General Introduction Life and Works of Spenser Spenser and His Age Spenser as a Poet Spenser as a Moralist Foreign In?uence in Spenser’s Poetry Renaissance and Reformation in Spenser’s Poetry Spenser’s Diction and Versi?cation Spenser’s Imagery Platonism in Spenser’s Poetry Allegory in Spenser’s Poetry Select Literary Criticism The Poem: Epithalamion, Prothalamion Text Paraphrase Evolution of Thought An Appreciation of Epithalamion Annotations Explanations of Important Passages Questions and Answers Chronological Table