Richard Chamberlain is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.

[Radical Spenser] does raise a series of fascinating issues, asks some difficult questions and does not settle for easy answers to them, and dares to be different. For these reasons alone, it deserves to be read and to feature on the radar of Spenserians.

• Introduction; I Reading; 1. 'The Essential Trick': Pastoral, New Historicism and the Aesthetic; II. Poetry; 2. Spenser's 'Critic Pen' in The Shepheardes Calender; 3. Ways In: The Pastoral Paratexts of The Faerie Queene; 4. Spenser's mode of Transport: The Faerie Queene, Books II-IV; 5. Political Poetry? The Faerie Queene, Books V-VI; III Environment; 6. Green Spenser: Mutabilitie and Others; 7. Spenser's Irish Environment: A View of the State of Ireland.

Richard Chamberlain is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.

[Radical Spenser] does raise a series of fascinating issues, asks some difficult questions and does not settle for easy answers to them, and dares to be different. For these reasons alone, it deserves to be read and to feature on the radar of Spenserians.

• Introduction; I Reading; 1. 'The Essential Trick': Pastoral, New Historicism and the Aesthetic; II. Poetry; 2. Spenser's 'Critic Pen' in The Shepheardes Calender; 3. Ways In: The Pastoral Paratexts of The Faerie Queene; 4. Spenser's mode of Transport: The Faerie Queene, Books II-IV; 5. Political Poetry? The Faerie Queene, Books V-VI; III Environment; 6. Green Spenser: Mutabilitie and Others; 7. Spenser's Irish Environment: A View of the State of Ireland.

Richard Chamberlain is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Bristol.

[Radical Spenser] does raise a series of fascinating issues, asks some difficult questions and does not settle for easy answers to them, and dares to be different. For these reasons alone, it deserves to be read and to feature on the radar of Spenserians.

• Introduction; I Reading; 1. 'The Essential Trick': Pastoral, New Historicism and the Aesthetic; II. Poetry; 2. Spenser's 'Critic Pen' in The Shepheardes Calender; 3. Ways In: The Pastoral Paratexts of The Faerie Queene; 4. Spenser's mode of Transport: The Faerie Queene, Books II-IV; 5. Political Poetry? The Faerie Queene, Books V-VI; III Environment; 6. Green Spenser: Mutabilitie and Others; 7. Spenser's Irish Environment: A View of the State of Ireland.