Frank Kermode 
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne [PDF ebook] 
Renaissance Essays

First published in 1971.
This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history.
Contents include: Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene, I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience of Shakespeare; Survival fo the Classic; Shakespeare”s Learning; The Mature Comedies; The Final Plays.