A View of the State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser Andrew Hadfield & Willy Maley (eds.) (Blackwell Publishers, £40)ISBN 0631205349 Solon his Follie, by Richard Beacon. Vincent Carey & Clare Carroll (eds.) (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies

The political writings of Edmund Spenser, the Elizabethan poet, have long been familiar to students of Irish history. In particular, his 1596 treatise A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland has achieved a certain infamy for the violent attitudes it expressed towards the Irish, among whom Spenser had lived and worked for almost twenty ... Read more

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