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Edmund Spenser ( / ˈspɛnsər /; 1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) [2] [3] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Edmund Spenser (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London) was an English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.
Edmund Spenser is considered one of the preeminent poets of the English language. He was born into the family of an obscure cloth maker named John Spenser, who belonged to the Merchant Taylors’ Company and was married to a woman named Elizabeth, about whom almost nothing is known.
Nov 18, 2021 · Edmund Spenser (c. 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet, and is best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene, which he wrote for Elizabeth I. Spenser is often remembered as one of the most important poets in the English language, using an interesting writing style that became known as the Spenserian stanza and a voluminous ...
Edmund Spenser is an iconic Tudor-era poet, who is known for his masterful craft of verse. He has become synonymous with his innovative Spenserian Stanza. Edmund Spenser has gone down as one of the most influential English poets of the 16th century. He has even been referred to as “the Poet’s Poet”.
The Faerie Queene, one of the great long poems in the English language, written in the 16th century by Edmund Spenser. As originally conceived, the poem was to have been a religious-moral-political allegory in 12 books, each consisting of the adventures of a knight representing a particular moral.
Examine the life, times, and work of Edmund Spenser through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI.
The Faerie Queene. : Book I, Canto I. By Edmund Spenser. Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, London. Author of Short Time's Endless Monument: The Symbolism of the Numbers in Spenser's Epithalamion and others; coeditor of Spenser's... A. Kent Hieatt. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
