Spenser, Edmund

Jeff Dolven

Spenser, Edmund

Jeff Dolven

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Edmund Spenser (c.1552–99), poet and colonial administrator in Ireland, was born in London, and buried near Geoffrey Chaucer in Westminster Abbey. A monument erected there in 1620 proclaimed him ‘the Prince of Poets in his tyme; whose Divine Spirrit needs noe othir witnesse then the works that he left behinde him’ (Maley 1994). That witness includes accomplished poems in a wide variety of genres, among them the pastoral eclogues of The shepheardes calender (1579); a sonnet sequence, Amoretti (1592); and the pillar of his reputation, the epic romance The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
Publisher	wiley
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118297353
ISBN (Print)	9781405194495
State	Published - Jan 1 2012

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General Arts and Humanities

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author
epic
reformation, the
renaissance literature
Spenser, Edmund

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