Edmund Spenser, The Shepherds Calendar (1579)
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Date
1579
Author
Lexicographer
E. K. (alternate name for Edward Kirke )
Lexicon title
Glosse
Book title
The Shepheardes Calender Conteyning tweelue Æglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney
Publication place
London
Publisher
Hugh Singleton
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
poetry
Summary
thought to be Spenser's friend Edward Kirke
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: couthe) commeth of the verbe Conne, that is, to know or haue skill. As well interpreteth the same the worthy Sir Tho. Smitth in his booke of gouernment: wher of I haue a perfect copie in wryting, lent me by his kinsemen, and my verye singular good freend, M. Gabriel Harvey: as also of some other his most graue & excellent wrytings. (a2v)
sample: couthe) commeth of the verbe Conne, that is, to know or haue skill. As well interpreteth the same the worthy Sir Tho. Smitth in his booke of gouernment: wher of I haue a perfect copie in wryting, lent me by his kinsemen, and my verye singular good freend, M. Gabriel Harvey: as also of some other his most graue & excellent wrytings. (a2v)
Schafer
1579 K
STC
23089
Other editions
1581-1617: STC 23090, 23091, 23092, 23093, 23093.5, 23094;
1653: Wing S4968 ("Calendarium pastorale")
1653: Wing S4968 ("Calendarium pastorale")
Facsimiles
Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calendar: A Facsimile Reproduction. Delmar, N.Y.: Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1979. view record
Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender, 1579. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender. The Original Edition of 1579 in Photographic Facsimile. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1890. view record
Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender, 1579. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record
Spenser, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender. The Original Edition of 1579 in Photographic Facsimile. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1890. view record
Modern editions
Spenser, Edmund. The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition. Eds. E. H. Greenlaw and others. 9 vols. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932-49. view record
Criticisms
Draper, John W. "The Glosses to Spenser's Shepheardes Calender." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 18 (1919): 556-74. view record
Starnes, Dewitt T. "E. K.'s Classical Allusions Reconsidered." Studies in Philology 39 (1942): 143-59. view record
Stillinger, Jack. "A Note on the Printing of E. K.'s Glosses." Studies in Bibliography 14 (1961): 203-05. view record
Starnes, Dewitt T. "E. K.'s Classical Allusions Reconsidered." Studies in Philology 39 (1942): 143-59. view record
Stillinger, Jack. "A Note on the Printing of E. K.'s Glosses." Studies in Bibliography 14 (1961): 203-05. view record
