Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia: New Light on the Cultural History of Elizabethan England

The exhibition celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene included books that were essential reading for his contemporaries. Among them were well-known works by Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Ralegh. Something of the intellectual context of Spenser's wor...

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Published in:The Princeton University Library chronicle 1990-10, Vol.52 (1), p.21-24
Main Author: GRAFTON, ANTHONY T.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The exhibition celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene included books that were essential reading for his contemporaries. Among them were well-known works by Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Walter Ralegh. Something of the intellectual context of Spenser's work is also revealed by the handwritten commentary to be found in the books once owned by his friend, the controversial Gabriel Harvey.
ISSN:0032-8456
DOI:10.2307/26403782