John Upton (Spenser editor)

John Upton (Spenser editor)

John Upton (1707-60) was an important early editor of Edmund Spenser, who is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic The Faerie Queene, which was first published in 1590 (books 1-3) and 1596 (books 4-6).

Source: John G. Radcliffe's article in the Spenser Encyclopedia (706).


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