Introduction: Relevance of Edmund Spenser / Andrew Hadfield
Spenser's life and career / Richard Rambuss
Historical contexts: Britain and Europe / David J. Baker
Ireland: policy, poetics and parody / Richard A. McCabe
Spenser's pastorals: The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts come home again / Patrick Cheney
Faerie Queene, Books I-III / Susanne L. Wofford
Faerie Queene, Books IV-VII
Spenser's shorter poems / Anne Lake Prescott
Spenser's languages: writing in the ruins of English
Sexual politics / Linda Gregerson
Spenser's religion / John N. King
Spenser and classical traditions / Colin Burrow
Spenser and contemporary vernacular poetry / Roland Greene
Spenser's influence / Paul Alpers.
