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FastnessPoetry. Translation. The Mutability Cantos have long been recognized as Edmund Spenser's crowning achievement, and along with his unfinished Faerie Queene, of which they appear to be an isolated fragment, they constitute a founding text of English poetry, and of the entire Romantic movement. In FASTNESS, Trevor Joyce gives us a poem which his subtitle describes as "A Translation from the English" of the Mutability Cantos. His introduction justifies
Poetry. Translation. The Mutability Cantos have long been recognized as Edmund Spenser's crowning achievement, and along with his unfinished Faerie Queene, of which they appear to be an isolated fragment, they constitute a founding text of English poetry, and of the entire Romantic movement. In FASTNESS, Trevor Joyce gives us a poem which his subtitle describes as "A Translation from the English" of the Mutability Cantos. His introduction justifies this provocation on historical and poetic grounds. Spenser migrated to Ireland in 1580 and, as administrator and settler colonist, he served as an intrinsic part of England's colonial enterprise, and a participant in its barbarities. It was in his castle at Kilcolman in north County Cork that he wrote most of the Faerie Queene, including the Mutability Cantos, and it was in that Irish landscape that he situated many of the idylls of his epic poem. It was there too that he composed his "View of the Present State of Ireland," a prose tract which advocated the conquest of Ireland through a savage policy of scorched earth and induced famine, which provided a model for Cromwell's campaign fifty years after Spenser's death. It is the break made by Cromwell's conquest, and the massacres and ethnic cleansing which accompanied it, that radically alters the meaning of Spenser's text viewed in historical retrospect, and justifies calling FASTNESS a translation. Joyce's poem turns allegory inside out, foregrounding the political narrative which underlies the mythological surface of Spenser's text. The Mutability Cantos grafted Elizabethan colonial politics onto a base of classical mythology. In FASTNESS, Joyce strips out Spenser's poetic dialect, and refits the narrative with modern poetic vernacular, viewing this monument of English culture through four centuries of British imperial and colonial history."Trevor Joyce's superb introduction to his translation of Spenser's English into our English tells us what we need to know about Spenser's time, his method, his politics, Ireland then, and the making of a poetry that is twined around sound, syntax, and sense. This is a bracing book held fast by multitudinous events spinning in unison. We see how the gods behaved towards Earth (a clod of turf in space) savaging her with bad weather. Wild Irish weather from mountains to sea, season to season, day to day: ever mutable. The held-fastness of the words together give indigenous a new poetic meaning."— Fanny Howe
"Part of a series of oversettings of Edmund Spenser's work that commenced with Joyce's Rome's Wreck (2014), a monosyllabic 'translation into English' of the sonnet sequence The Ruines of Rome, this new rendering of Spenser's The Mutability Cantos is nothing less than a radical postcolonial Irish poem. In FASTNESS, Joyce gives us back Spenser's language both ruined and revived, as Spenser, the settler colonial official and land- grabber of Kilcolman Castle, Cork, plotted the ruin of Irish culture, language and people. Like Blake's Milton, FASTNESS is Spenser's poetry with sympathy for the devil, a language of Mutability, fast in its vernacular and in its rollicking narrative, and holding fast, as Joyce always does, to the ample resources of the language that its ruination reveals. Read, and enjoy the ride."—David Lloyd
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★★★★★ 5
Sweet and delicate
I love this necklace! With its size being so small, it’s delicate and subtle. While the engraving is very small and needs a close look to actually read, I love it that way. I wear it to honor my dog who’s passed, not for the sake of others reading it, so who cares if the engraving is tiny. I know her name is there and it’s a beautiful accessory for any outfit, while allowing me to honor the memory of her.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Cute necklace and earrings.
I love the necklace. It’s kinda small, but works well if you want to wear it with another necklace. I also love the free pair of heart earrings that look very nice with the necklace.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Amazing and the price can't be beat
Love this. And the subtlety/ minimalist is perfect for my style!!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2026
★★★★★ 1
VERY VERY HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED! WASTE OF MONEY!
Don't waste your money! The description states that the image is enlarged to show detail and that the actual item is smaller - BUT it does not tell you that you can't even tell the pendant is a paw print. I got three paws, with engraving, and the whole thing looks like a blob of gold nothing. As you would then expect you can not even see anything that is engraved! Why waste the time? If you are not going to be able to see it, why have it?
I can't express deeply enough how extremely disappointing this necklace is. It is cheap and thin and very small.
Of course, because it was engraved I can't return it. Buyer beware! Don't waste your time or money! This item is a huge rip off!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Great Quality and worth the price
I love my necklace as an the monogram is perfect but I'm giving it 4 stars because I've only worn it 3 times and the clasp does not close tight so each time I put it on I attach it in the mirror but this past week I noticed it was missing just an hour after I'd put it on and luckily I found it on the rug in front of my kitchen sink the next evening. I was so happy I'd found it that I wanted to wear it so I went into the bathroom to mack sure the clasp was shut tight and within 20 minutes it was missing again. I retraced my steps in my house for 30 minutes and can't find it so if you purchase one be sure the clasp is working, otherwise you may want to replace it. So sad and hope I find mine because it's so tiny and cute that I truly do like it.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2025
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