The authoritative biography, Alexander C. Judson, The Life of Edmund Spenser (1945, reissued 1966), was reissued in a facsimile edition based on the 1966 edition as volume 11 of a variorum edition of The Works of Edmund Spenser [2002], ed. by Edwin Greenlaw. Harry Berger (compiler), Spenser (1968), is an anthology of critical essays. Monographic treatments of aspects of Spenser’s poetry include W.L. Renwick, Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry (1925, reissued 1964); Virgil K. Whitaker, The Religious Basis of Spenser’s Thought (1950, reissued 1966); Robert Ellrodt, Neoplatonism in the Poetry of Spenser (1960, reprinted 1978); William Nelson, The Poetry of Edmund Spenser (1963, reprinted 1978); Paul J. Alpers, The Poetry of The Faerie Queene (1967, reissued 1982); Jane Aptekar, Icons of Justice: Iconography & Thematic Imagery in Book V of The Faerie Queene (1969); Judith H. Anderson, The Growth of a Personal Voice (1976), a comparative analysis of Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene; John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (1989); and John N. King, Spenser’s Poetry and the Reformation Tradition (1990). Andrew Hadfield (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (2001), collects contemporary essays on Spenser. Patricia Coughlan (ed.), Spenser and Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1989); and Willy Maley, Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997), treat Spenser’s Irish experience.