Patrick Cheney, Pennsylvania State University
Read is a trustworthy scholar and a learned Spenserian. He knows both Spensers Book 2 and the historical narratives that frame his study.
Arthur F. Kinney, Director, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
David Reads deeply persuasive book Temperate Conquests demonstrates that Spensers most sustained representation of colonial activity in The Faerie Queene comes not in the publication of 1596 and Book 5 but in the publication of 1590 and in Book 2.
Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World FROM THE PUBLISHER
"An examination of colonialism and Elizabethan empire in Book 2 of Edmund Spenserﾽs The Faerie Queene, "Of Temperaunce."
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