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succinct yet thorough account of Spenser’s life, works, and literary legacy, of the history of the English sonnet (from Chaucer, through Wyatt and Surrey, with notable stops at Thomas Watson,

The only significant human presence, however, remains opaque. In the environmentally-aware Shakespeare criticism of Robert Watson, Gabriel Egan, and Simon Palfrey, it’s apparent that the problem of other minds

The home of Edmund Spenser studies on the Internet. Abstracts from Spenser Studies. Volume XXXIII, 2019. Richard Z. Lee, Wary Boldness: Courtesy and Critical Aesthetics in The Faerie Queene. In Book VI of The Faerie Queene, Spenser figures courtesy

the round” (Tudor Translation 101), and, in the case of Christopher Watson’s 1568 translation of Polybius, the translation illuminates Elizabethan reading practices, politics, religion, and geography.

12] I myself side with Nicholas Watson’s suggestion that Chaucer’s professed spirituality may best be understood with reference to the mediocriter boni, those not-too-good (or bad) Christians

His most talented contemporaries included John Lyly, Thomas Watson, Robert Greene, George Peele, and Thomas Nashe.