New Poet, Old Words: Glossing the "Shepheardes Calender."

Author / Editor
Kelen, Sarah A.

Title
New Poet, Old Words: Glossing the "Shepheardes Calender."

Published
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds. The Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan (New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2016), pp. 235-55.

Description
Compares and contrasts Immerito's and E. K.'s attitudes toward language and archaism in Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender," with particular attention to how the "overly generous glossing" of the text presumes a "reader's familiarity with medieval verse, particularly that of Chaucer." Comments on Thomas Speght's approach to "hard words" in his 1598 edition of Chaucer's works, and includes illustrations.

Contributor
Brayman Hackel, Heidi, ed.
Lander, Jesse M., ed.
Lesser, Zachary, ed.

Alternative Title
he Book in History, the Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text: Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations