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Brown, Richard Danson (2025). Anger, Complaint, and Poetic Form in the Tristram Episode and The Faerie Queene, Book 6. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (SEL), 63(1) (In Press).

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Brown, Richard Danson (2025). Fie Upon “But Yet”: Stanza Lead Words and Adversative Conjunctions in The Faerie Queene. In: Goeglein, Tamara A. and Vaught, Jennifer C. eds. Textual Respect: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson. Kalamazoo, USA and Berlin, Germany: Medieval Institute Publications and De Gruyter (In Press).

Brown, Richard Danson (2024). Spenser with Bruegel: Authority and Punishment in The Faerie Queene, Book V. Spenser Studies, 38 pp. 1–29.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2024). [Book Review] Rebecca M. Rush, The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England. Ben Jonson Journal, 31(1) pp. 117–122.

Brown, Richard Danson (2024). [Book Review] Lucy Wooding, Tudor England: A History New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. Sidney Journal, 42(1)

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Brown, Richard Danson (2024). Scorned little creatures?: insects and genre in Complaints (1591). In: Stenner, Rachel and Shinn, Abigail eds. Edmund Spenser and Animal Life. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. London: Palgrave, pp. 139–158.

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Brown, Richard Danson and Hadfield, Andrew (2024). Bad Spenser? A Dialogue. The Spenser Review, 54(1) pp. 1–14.

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Brown, Richard Danson; Hadfield, Andrew and Wadowski, Andrew (2024). The Spenser Review, Vol 54, Issue 1. Special Issue: Spenser and Bad Poetry.

Brown, Richard Danson and Chaghafi, Elisabeth (2023). “Looke backe, who list”: Reassessing the 1611 Folio Text of Complaints. Spenser Review, 53(2)

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Brown, Richard Danson (2022). Literature and Form in the Renaissance. In: Rabinowitz, Paula and Hadfield, Andrew eds. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxfordre.com. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2020). Why at all Complain? "Bad" Poetry and Denatured Form in Spenser's Daphnaida. Spenser Studies, 34 pp. 77–110.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2020). A. D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin, eds., Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama. Spenser Review, 50(2), article no. 8.

Brown, Richard Danson; Berry, Craig A.; Hadfield, Andrew and Grogan, Jane (2019). Editorial Introduction: Creative Responses to Spenser; Spenserian Poetry. Spenser Review, 49(3), article no. 1.

Brown, Richard Danson (2019). Caring to turn back: overhearing Spenser in Donne. In: Ryzhik, Yulia ed. Spenser and Donne: Thinking Poets. The Manchester Spenser, 1. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 13–31.

Brown, Richard Danson (2019). Wise wights in privy places: rhyme and stanza form in Spenser and Chaucer. In: Stenner, Rachel; Badcoe, Tamsin and Griffith, Gareth eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 113–136.

Brown, Richard Danson (2019). The art of The Faerie Queene. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Brown, Richard Danson (2019). Three Poems in Spenserian Poetry: 'Merlin's Mirror', 'Faerie Queene Palimpsest', 'Figures of Speech'. Spenser Review, 49(3), article no. 2.

Brown, Richard Danson (2018). [Book Review] Catherine Bates, ed., A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. The Spenser Review, 48(3)

Brown, Richard Danson (2018). Trevor Joyce, Fastness: a Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser. Spenser Review, 48(1), article no. 14.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2018). “And dearest loue”: Virgilian half-lines in Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Proceedings of the Virgil Society, 29 pp. 49–74.

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Brown, Richard Danson and Lethbridge, Julian (2013). Concordance to the Rhymes of the Faerie Queene: with two studies of Spenser's Rhymes. The Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2013). Call you ’em stanzos? Stanza form and reading poetry. The English Review, 23(4) pp. 32–34.

Brown, Richard Danson (2013). ‘Such ungodly terms’: style, taste, verse satire and epigram in The Dutch Courtesan.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2012). Review of Richard A. McCabe, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser. Modern Language Review, 107(1) pp. 271–272.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2011). 'Can't we ever, my love, speak in the same language?': everyday language and creative tension in the poetry of Louis MacNeice. In: Swann, Joan; Pope, Rob and Carter, Ronald eds. Creativity in Language and Literature: The State of the Art. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39–54.

Brown, Richard Danson (2011). Reading iambic pentameter. English Review, 22(2) pp. 34–37.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2010). Book review: Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers, Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher (eds). The Modern Language Review, 105(3) pp. 832–834.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2010). Book Review: Gerald Dawe (ed) 'Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945'. Wasafiri, 25(2) pp. 85–87.

Brown, Richard Danson (2010). “Modern Bondage” or reading for rhyme. The English Review, 20(4) pp. 2–5.

Brown, Richard Danson (2010). ‘I would abate the sternenesse of my stile’: diction and poetic subversion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie’. In: Grogan, Jane ed. Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos. Manchester Spenser. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 275–294.

Brown, Richard Danson (2010). C Day-Lewis: A Life. The Modern Language Review, 105(4) pp. 859–860.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2009). Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s. Writers and their Work. Tavistock, UK: Northcote House Publishers Ltd.

Brown, Richard Danson (2009). Book review: Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's Legal Language: Law and Poetry in Early Modern England. The Modern Language Review, 104(2) pp. 546–548.

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Brown, Richard Danson (2008). W.S. Graham: I Leave This At Your Ear. The English Review, 19(2) pp. 9–12.

Brown, Richard Danson (2008). Book review: Richard Chamberlain, 'Radical Spenser: Pastoral, Politics and the New Aestheticism'. Yearbook of English Studies, 38(1 & 2) pp. 268–269.

Brown, Richard Danson (2008). Andrew Hadfield, ‘Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics’, and ‘Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain’. Yearbook of English Studies, 38(1 & 2) pp. 269–271.

Brown, Richard Danson (2008). Book review: John Stubbs, 'Donne: The Reformed Soul'. Yearbook of English Studies, 38(1 & 2) pp. 272–274.

Brown, Richard Danson (2008). Book review: Louis MacNeice, ‘Collected Poems’, Peter McDonald (ed). The Modern Language Review, 103(1) pp. 213–214.

Brown, Richard Danson (2007). Everyman’s progresses: Louis MacNeice’s dialogues with Bunyan. In: Owens, W. R. and Sim, Stuart eds. Reception, Appropriation, Recollection: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Religions and discourse (33). Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, pp. 147–163.

Brown, Richard Danson (2006). MacNeice in Fairy Land. In: Lethbridge, J. B. ed. Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions. Madison, U.S.A.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. 352–369.

Brown, Richard Danson (2005). Neutrality and Commitment: MacNeice, Yeats, Ireland and the Second World War. Journal of Modern Literature, 28(3) pp. 109–129.

Brown, Richard Danson (2005). His lights are not ours: W. B. Yeats and the wartime poems of Louis MacNeice. In: Harte, Liam; Whelan, Yvonne and Crotty, Patrick eds. Ireland: space, text, time. Dublin, Ireland: Liffey Press, pp. 113–123.

Brown, Richard Danson (2002). 'Your thoughts make shape like snow': Louis MacNeice on Stephen Spender. Twentieth-Century Literature, 48(3) pp. 292–323.

Miller, David Lee; Anderson, Judith H.; Brown, Richard Danson; Dolven, Jeff; Gross, Ken; Nohrnberg, James and Ramachandran, Ayesha (2020). Responses to Harry R. Berger, Resisting Allegory: interpretive delirium in Spenser's "Faerie Queene". Spenser Review, 50(2), article no. 50.2.2..

Wadowski, Andrew; Hadfield, Andrew and Brown, Richard Danson (2024). "Bad Intro": Letter from the Editors. The Spenser Review, 54(1)