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Article: Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 1999
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Andrew Hadfield. Spenser's Irish Experience: Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. xi + 227 pp. $65.00. ISBN: 0-19-818345-3.
1997 witnessed the publication of four books dedicated wholly or in part to the burgeoning field of study of "Spenser and Ireland": Maley's Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity, Hadfield's Spenser's Irish Experience, Christopher Highley's Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland, and David J. Baker's Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain. Critical attention to "Spenser and Ireland" is not new - in the early decades of this century a group of American scholars assembled valuable archival ...