Andrew Hadfield
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Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting Professor at the University of Granada.

His many books on early modern literature include Shakespeare and Republicanism, Spenser’s Irish Experience, and Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance.

He is a regular reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement.

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Why Edmund Spenser Matters

(2) Comments | Posted 27 June 2012 | (00:00)

Literary biographers almost invariably conclude that their subject is unjustly neglected and deserves to be more widely read. Few writers have a reputation as uninspiring as Edmund Spenser (1554?-99), a poet who commands hardly any general readers and who English undergraduates routinely shun. Tom Paulin described his magnum...

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