Spenser Encyclopedia

Donald Cheney is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A.C. Hamilton is Cappon Professor of English at Queen’s University.

'This is the Spenser encyclopedia ... far surpassing in scope, size, and ambition any Spenser handbooks, reference guides, supplements, or topical dictionaries that have preceded it ... The editors and contributors have produced a monumental work, which in scope and composition, is admirably well conceived and methodologically superior to all other such reference works on literary figures.'- William C. Johnson (The Sixteenth Century Journal) "It is hard to see that the Encyclopedia, given its premises, could be any better than it is ... Certainly every university library ought to order a copy and no one should start to write anything on Spenser without consulting the Encyclopedia first.'- Andrew Hadfield (Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie)