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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-awa mw-list-item"><a href="https://awa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0" title="एडमंड स्पेंसर – Awadhi" lang="awa" hreflang="awa" data-title="एडमंड स्पेंसर" data-language-autonym="अवधी" data-language-local-name="Awadhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अवधी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1" title="ادموند اسپنسر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ادموند اسپنسر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="এডমান্ড স্পেন্সার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="এডমান্ড স্পেন্সার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Эдмунд Спенсер – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Эдмунд Спенсер" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Эдмунд Спэнсэр – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Эдмунд Спэнсэр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0" title="एडमंड स्पेंसर – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="एडमंड स्पेंसर" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%8A%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Едмънд Спенсър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Едмънд Спенсър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Спенсер Эдмунд – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Спенсер Эдмунд" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Έντμουντ Σπένσερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Έντμουντ Σπένσερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1" title="ادموند اسپنسر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ادموند اسپنسر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EB%93%9C%EB%A8%BC%EB%93%9C_%EC%8A%A4%ED%8E%9C%EC%84%9C" title="에드먼드 스펜서 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="에드먼드 스펜서" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%A4%D5%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%A4_%D5%8D%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Էդմունդ Սպենսեր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Էդմունդ Սպենսեր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0" title="एडमंड स्पेंसर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="एडमंड स्पेंसर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spencer" title="Edmund Spencer – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Edmund Spencer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Спенсер, Эдмунд – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Спенсер, Эдмунд" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A8" title="אדמונד ספנסר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אדמונד ספנסר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D" title="ಎಡ್ಮ್ಂಡ್ ಸ್ಪೆನ್ಸರ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಎಡ್ಮ್ಂಡ್ ಸ್ಪೆನ್ಸರ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="ედმუნდ სპენსერი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ედმუნდ სპენსერი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Cornish" 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href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1" title="ادموند سبنسر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ادموند سبنسر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%86%E1%80%95%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%AC_%E1%80%A1%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%92%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA" title="ဆပင်စာ အက်ဒမန် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဆပင်စာ အက်ဒမန်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Edmund Spenser" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" 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name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">Immerito <span style="font-size:85%;">(in 1579)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r979066050">.mw-parser-output ul.cslist,.mw-parser-output ul.sslist{margin:0;padding:0;display:inline-block;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output ul.cslist-embedded{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .cslist li,.mw-parser-output .sslist li{margin:0;padding:0 0.25em 0 0;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:after{content:", "}.mw-parser-output .sslist li:after{content:"; "}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .sslist li:last-child:after{content:none}</style><ul class="cslist"><li>Poet</li><li>state servant</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_English" title="Early Modern English">Early Modern English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">M.A.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Cambridge" title="Pembroke College, Cambridge">Pembroke College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan era</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic poem</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Eclogue" title="Eclogue">eclogue</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sonnet" title="Sonnet">sonnet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elegy" title="Elegy">elegy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Epithalamium" title="Epithalamium">epithalamium</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Beast_fable" class="mw-redirect" title="Beast fable">beast fable</a></li><li>poetical <a href="/wiki/Autobiography" title="Autobiography">autobiography</a></li><li>political <a href="/wiki/Treatise" title="Treatise">treatise</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a></li><li>translation</li><li>correspondence</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subjects</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r979066050"><ul class="cslist"><li>Love</li><li>beauty</li><li>beautiful lady</li><li><a href="/wiki/Pastoral" title="Pastoral">pastoral</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r979066050"><ul class="cslist"><li><a href="/wiki/English_Renaissance" title="English Renaissance">English Renaissance</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Petrarchism" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrarchism">Petrarchism</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDasenbrock198547–48_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDasenbrock198547–48-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1569–1599</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg/150px-Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg/225px-Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg/300px-Edmund_Spenser_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="186" data-file-height="56" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edmund Spenser</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January <a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 1599)<sup id="cite_ref-NA_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an English poet best known for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>, an epic poem and fantastical <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a> celebrating the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Tudor" title="House of Tudor">Tudor dynasty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth I</a>. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Edmund Spenser was born in <a href="/wiki/East_Smithfield" title="East Smithfield">East Smithfield</a>, London, around the year 1552; however, there is still some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman clothmaker. As a young boy, he was educated in London at the <a href="/wiki/Merchant_Taylors%27_School,_Northwood" title="Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood">Merchant Taylors' School</a> and matriculated as a <a href="/wiki/Sizar" title="Sizar">sizar</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Cambridge" title="Pembroke College, Cambridge">Pembroke College, Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at Cambridge he became a friend of <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Harvey" title="Gabriel Harvey">Gabriel Harvey</a> and later consulted him, despite their differing views on poetry. In 1578, he became for a short time secretary to <a href="/wiki/John_Young_(bishop_of_Rochester)" title="John Young (bishop of Rochester)">John Young</a>, Bishop of Rochester.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1579, he published <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender" title="The Shepheardes Calender">The Shepheardes Calender</a></i> and around the same time married his first wife, Machabyas Childe.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two children, Sylvanus (d. 1638) and Katherine.<sup id="cite_ref-westminster-abbey.org_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westminster-abbey.org-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 1580, Spenser went to Ireland in service of the newly appointed <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Ireland" title="Lord Lieutenant of Ireland">Lord Deputy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Grey,_14th_Baron_Grey_de_Wilton" title="Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton">Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton</a>. Spenser served under Lord Grey with <a href="/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" title="Walter Raleigh">Walter Raleigh</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Smerwick" title="Siege of Smerwick">Siege of Smerwick</a> massacre.<sup id="cite_ref-church_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-church-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Lord Grey was recalled to England, Spenser stayed on in Ireland, having acquired other official posts and lands in the <a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Munster" class="mw-redirect" title="Plantation of Munster">Munster Plantation</a>. Raleigh acquired other nearby Munster estates confiscated in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Desmond_Rebellion" title="Second Desmond Rebellion">Second Desmond Rebellion</a>. Sometime between 1587 and 1589, Spenser acquired his main estate at <a href="/wiki/Kilcolman_Castle" title="Kilcolman Castle">Kilcolman</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Doneraile" title="Doneraile">Doneraile</a> in North Cork.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later bought a second holding to the south, at Rennie, on a rock overlooking the river <a href="/wiki/Munster_Blackwater" title="Munster Blackwater">Blackwater</a> in North Cork. Its ruins are still visible today. A short distance away grew a tree, locally known as "Spenser's Oak" until it was destroyed in a lightning strike in the 1960s. Local legend claims that he penned some of <i>The Faerie Queene</i> under this tree.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1590, Spenser brought out the first three books of his most famous work, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>, having travelled to London to publish and promote the work, with the likely assistance of Raleigh. He was successful enough to obtain a life pension of £50 a year from the Queen. He probably hoped to secure a place at court through his poetry, but his next significant publication boldly antagonised the queen's principal secretary, <a href="/wiki/William_Cecil,_1st_Baron_Burghley" title="William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley">Lord Burghley (William Cecil)</a>, through its inclusion of the satirical <i><a href="/wiki/Mother_Hubberd%27s_Tale" title="Mother Hubberd's Tale">Mother Hubberd's Tale</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to Ireland. He was at the centre of a literary circle whose members included his lifelong friend <a href="/wiki/Lodowick_Bryskett" title="Lodowick Bryskett">Lodowick Bryskett</a> and Dr. <a href="/wiki/John_Longe" title="John Longe">John Longe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Armagh" title="Archbishop of Armagh">Archbishop of Armagh</a>. </p><p>In 1591, Spenser published a translation in verse of <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Du_Bellay" class="mw-redirect" title="Joachim Du Bellay">Joachim Du Bellay</a>'s sonnets, <i>Les Antiquités de Rome</i>, which had been published in 1558. Spenser's version, <i>Ruines of Rome: by Bellay</i>, may also have been influenced by Latin poems on the same subject, written by Jean or Janis Vitalis and published in 1576.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1594, Spenser's first wife had died, and in that year he married a much younger Elizabeth Boyle, a relative of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Boyle,_1st_Earl_of_Cork" title="Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork">Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork</a>. He addressed to her the sonnet sequence <i><a href="/wiki/Amoretti" title="Amoretti">Amoretti</a></i>. The marriage was celebrated in <i><a href="/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem)" title="Epithalamion (poem)">Epithalamion</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had a son named Peregrine.<sup id="cite_ref-westminster-abbey.org_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westminster-abbey.org-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1596, Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled <i><a href="/wiki/A_View_of_the_Present_State_of_Irelande" title="A View of the Present State of Irelande">A View of the Present State of Irelande</a></i>. This piece, in the form of a dialogue, circulated in manuscript, remaining unpublished until the mid-17th century. It is probable that it was kept out of print during the author's lifetime because of its inflammatory content. The pamphlet argued that Ireland would never be totally "pacified" by the English until its indigenous language and customs had been destroyed, if necessary by violence.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1598, during the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)" title="Nine Years' War (Ireland)">Nine Years' War</a>, Spenser was driven from his home by the native Irish forces of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_%C3%93_Neill,_2nd_Earl_of_Tyrone" class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Ó Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone">Aodh Ó Néill</a>. His <a href="/wiki/Kilcolman_Castle" title="Kilcolman Castle">castle at Kilcolman</a> was burned, and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>, who may have had private information, asserted that one of his infant children died in the blaze.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg/230px-Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="336" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg/345px-Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg/460px-Fowre_Hymnes_by_Edmund_Spenser_1596.jpg 2x" data-file-width="958" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Title_page" title="Title page">Title page</a>, <i>Fowre Hymnes</i>, by Edmund Spenser, published by <a href="/wiki/William_Ponsonby_(publisher)" title="William Ponsonby (publisher)">William Ponsonby</a>, London, 1596</figcaption></figure> <p>In the year after being driven from his home, 1599, Spenser travelled to London, where he died at the age of forty-six – "for want of bread", according to <a href="/wiki/Ben_Jonson" title="Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>; one of Jonson's more doubtful statements, since Spenser had a payment to him authorised by the government and was due his pension.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His coffin was carried to his grave, deliberately near that of <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>, in what became known as <a href="/wiki/Poets%27_Corner" title="Poets' Corner">Poets' Corner</a> in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a> by other poets, probably including <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>, who threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His second wife survived him and remarried twice. His sister Sarah, who had accompanied him to Ireland, married into the Travers family, and her descendants were prominent landowners in Cork for centuries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rhyme_and_reason">Rhyme and reason</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rhyme and reason"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fuller" title="Thomas Fuller">Thomas Fuller</a>, in <i>Worthies of England</i>, included a story where the Queen told her treasurer, William Cecil, to pay Spenser £100 for his poetry. The treasurer, however, objected that the sum was too much. She said, "Then give him what is reason". Without receiving his payment in due time, Spenser gave the Queen this <a href="/wiki/Quatrain" title="Quatrain">quatrain</a> on one of her progresses: </p> <blockquote><div class="poem"> <p>I was promis'd on a time,<br /> To have a reason for my rhyme:<br /> From that time unto this season,<br /> I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>She immediately ordered the treasurer to pay Spenser the original £100. </p><p>This story seems to have attached itself to Spenser from <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Churchyard" title="Thomas Churchyard">Thomas Churchyard</a>, who apparently had difficulty in getting payment of his pension, the only other pension Elizabeth awarded to a poet. Spenser seems to have had no difficulty in receiving payment when it was due as the pension was being collected for him by his publisher, Ponsonby.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Shepheardes_Calender"><i>The Shepheardes Calender</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Shepheardes Calender"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender" title="The Shepheardes Calender">The Shepheardes Calender</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg/220px-Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="343" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg/330px-Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg/440px-Title_Page_of_a_1617_Edition_of_The_Shepherd%27s_Calendar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1918" data-file-height="2991" /></a><figcaption>Title Page of a 1617 Edition of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender" title="The Shepheardes Calender">The Shepheardes Calender</a></i> printed by Matthew Lownes, often bound with the complete works printed in 1611 or 1617.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender" title="The Shepheardes Calender">The Shepheardes Calender</a></i> is Edmund Spenser's first major work, which appeared in 1579. It emulates <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Eclogues" title="Eclogues">Eclogues</a></i> of the first century BCE and the <i>Eclogues</i> of Mantuan by <a href="/wiki/Baptista_Mantuanus" title="Baptista Mantuanus">Baptista Mantuanus</a>, a late medieval, early renaissance poet.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An eclogue is a short pastoral poem that is in the form of a dialogue or soliloquy. Although all the months together form an entire year, each month stands alone as a separate poem. Editions of the late 16th and early 17th centuries include woodcuts for each month/poem, and thereby have a slight similarity to an emblem book which combines a number of self-contained pictures and texts, usually a short vignette, saying, or allegory with an accompanying illustration.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Faerie_Queene"><i>The Faerie Queene</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Faerie Queene"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg/220px-The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg/330px-The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg/440px-The_Faerie_Queene_frontispiece.jpg 2x" data-file-width="567" data-file-height="818" /></a><figcaption>The epic poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i> frontispiece, printed by William Ponsonby in 1590.</figcaption></figure> <p>Spenser's masterpiece is the <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poem</a> <i>The Faerie Queene</i>. The first three books of <i>The Faerie Queene</i> were published in 1590, and the second set of three books was published in 1596. Spenser originally indicated that he intended the poem to consist of twelve books, so the version of the poem we have today is incomplete. Despite this, it remains one of the longest poems in the English language.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is an <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegorical</a> work, and can be read (as Spenser presumably intended) on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth I</a>. In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. In Spenser's "A Letter of the Authors", he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in allegorical devises", and that the aim behind <i>The Faerie Queene</i> was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Shorter_poems">Shorter poems</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Shorter poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spenser published numerous relatively short poems in the last decade of the 16th century, almost all of which consider love or sorrow. In 1591, he published <i><a href="/wiki/Complaints_(poetry_collection)" title="Complaints (poetry collection)">Complaints</a></i>, a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones. Four years later, in 1595, Spenser published <i>Amoretti and Epithalamion</i>. This volume contains eighty-eight sonnets commemorating his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle. In <i><a href="/wiki/Amoretti" title="Amoretti">Amoretti</a></i>, Spenser uses subtle humour and parody while praising his beloved, reworking Petrarchism in his treatment of longing for a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDasenbrock198547–48_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDasenbrock198547–48-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem)" title="Epithalamion (poem)">Epithalamion</a></i>, similar to <i>Amoretti</i>, deals in part with the unease in the development of a romantic and sexual relationship. It was written for his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle. Some have speculated that the attention to disquiet, in general, reflects Spenser's personal anxieties at the time, as he was unable to complete his most significant work, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>. In the following year, Spenser released <i><a href="/wiki/Prothalamion" title="Prothalamion">Prothalamion</a></i>, a wedding song written for the daughters of a duke, allegedly in hopes to gain favour in the court.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Spenserian_stanza_and_sonnet">The Spenserian stanza and sonnet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Spenserian stanza and sonnet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spenser used a distinctive verse form, called the <a href="/wiki/Spenserian_stanza" title="Spenserian stanza">Spenserian stanza</a>, in several works, including <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>. The stanza's main metre is <a href="/wiki/Iambic_pentameter" title="Iambic pentameter">iambic pentameter</a> with a final line in <a href="/wiki/Iambic_hexameter" class="mw-redirect" title="Iambic hexameter">iambic hexameter</a> (having six feet or stresses, known as an <a href="/wiki/Alexandrine" title="Alexandrine">Alexandrine</a>), and the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also used his own rhyme scheme for the sonnet. In a Spenserian sonnet, the last line of every quatrain is linked with the first line of the next one, yielding the rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Men Call you Fayre" is a fine Sonnet from Amoretti. The poet presents the concept of true beauty in the poem. He addresses the sonnet to his beloved, Elizabeth Boyle, and presents his courtship. Like all Renaissance men, Edmund Spenser believed that love is an inexhaustible source of beauty and order. In this Sonnet, the poet expresses his idea of true beauty. The physical beauty will finish after a few days; it is not a permanent beauty. He emphasises beauty of mind and beauty of intellect. He considers his beloved is not simply flesh but is also a spiritual being. The poet opines that he is beloved born of heavenly seed and she is derived from fair spirit. The poet states that because of her clean mind, pure heart and sharp intellect, men call her fair and she deserves it. At the end, the poet praises her spiritual beauty and he worships her because of her Divine Soul. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influences">Influences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Influences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though Spenser was well-read in classical literature, scholars have noted that his poetry does not rehash tradition, but rather is distinctly his. This individuality may have resulted, to some extent, from a lack of comprehension of the classics. Spenser strove to emulate such ancient Roman poets as <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, whom he studied during his schooling, but many of his best-known works are notably divergent from those of his predecessors.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The language of his poetry is purposely archaic, reminiscent of earlier works such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales" title="The Canterbury Tales">The Canterbury Tales</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Il_Canzoniere" title="Il Canzoniere">Il Canzoniere</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a>, whom Spenser greatly admired. </p><p>An Anglican<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a devotee of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth, Spenser was particularly offended by the anti-Elizabethan propaganda that some Catholics circulated. Like most Protestants near the time of the Reformation, Spenser saw a Catholic church full of corruption, and he determined that it was not only the wrong religion but the anti-religion. This sentiment is an important backdrop for the battles of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spenser was called "the Poet's Poet" by Charles Lamb,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was admired by <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a> and others. Among his contemporaries <a href="/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" title="Walter Raleigh">Walter Raleigh</a> wrote a commendatory poem to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i> in 1590 in which he claims to admire and value Spenser's work more so than any other in the English language. John Milton in his <i><a href="/wiki/Areopagitica" title="Areopagitica">Areopagitica</a></i> mentions "our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than <a href="/wiki/Duns_Scotus" title="Duns Scotus">Scotus</a> or <a href="/wiki/Aquinas" class="mw-redirect" title="Aquinas">Aquinas</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 18th century, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a> compared Spenser to "a mistress, whose faults we see, but love her with them all".<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A_View_of_the_Present_State_of_Irelande"><i>A View of the Present State of Irelande</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: A View of the Present State of Irelande"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/A_View_of_the_Present_State_of_Irelande" title="A View of the Present State of Irelande">A View of the Present State of Irelande</a></div> <p>In his work <i><a href="/wiki/A_View_of_the_Present_State_of_Irelande" title="A View of the Present State of Irelande">A View of the Present State of Irelande</a></i> (1596), Spenser discussed future plans to <a href="/wiki/Tudor_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Tudor conquest of Ireland">establish control over Ireland</a>, the most recent Irish uprising, led by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_O%27Neill,_Earl_of_Tyrone" title="Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone">Hugh O'Neill</a> having demonstrated the futility of previous efforts. The work is partly a defence of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Grey,_14th_Baron_Grey_de_Wilton" title="Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton">Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton</a>, who was appointed <a href="/wiki/Lord_Deputy_of_Ireland" title="Lord Deputy of Ireland">Lord Deputy of Ireland</a> in 1580, and who greatly influenced Spenser's thinking on Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The goal of the piece was to show that Ireland was in great need of reform. Spenser believed that "Ireland is a diseased portion of the State, it must first be cured and reformed, before it could be in a position to appreciate the good sound laws and blessings of the nation".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>A View of the Present State of Ireland</i>, Spenser categorises the "evils" of the Irish people into three prominent categories: laws, customs and religion. According to Spenser, these three elements worked together in creating the supposedly "disruptive and degraded people" who inhabited the country.<sup id="cite_ref-ucc.ie_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ucc.ie-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One example given in the work is the Irish law system termed "<a href="/wiki/Early_Irish_law" title="Early Irish law">Brehon law</a>", which at the time trumped the established law as dictated by <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a>. The Brehon system had its own court and methods of punishing infractions committed. Spenser viewed this system as a backward custom which contributed to the "degradation" of the Irish people. A particular legal punishment viewed with distaste by Spenser was the Brehon method of dealing with <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a>, which was to impose an <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89raic" title="Éraic">éraic</a></i> (fine) on the murderer's family.<sup id="cite_ref-Wake1878_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wake1878-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From Spenser's viewpoint, the appropriate punishment for murder was <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">capital punishment</a>. Spenser also warned of the dangers that allowing the education of children in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a> would bring: "Soe that the speach being Irish, the hart must needes be Irishe; for out of the aboundance of the hart, the tonge speaketh".<sup id="cite_ref-ucc.ie_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ucc.ie-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He pressed for a <a href="/wiki/Scorched_earth" title="Scorched earth">scorched earth</a> policy in Ireland, noting its effectiveness in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Desmond_Rebellion" title="Second Desmond Rebellion">Second Desmond Rebellion</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>"'Out of everye corner of the woode and glenns they came creepinge forth upon theire handes, for theire legges could not beare them; they looked Anatomies [of] death, they spake like ghostes, crying out of theire graves; they did eate of the carrions, happye wheare they could find them, yea, and one another soone after, in soe much as the verye carcasses they spared not to scrape out of theire graves; and if they found a plott of water-cresses or shamrockes, theyr they flocked as to a feast… in a shorte space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentyfull countrye suddenly lefte voyde of man or beast: yett sure in all that warr, there perished not manye by the sworde, but all by the extreamytie of famine ... they themselves had wrought.'"<sup id="cite_ref-ucc.ie_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ucc.ie-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_works">List of works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: List of works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>1569: </p> <ul><li>Jan van der Noodt's <i>A Theatre for Worldlings</i>, including poems translated into English by Spenser from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in London<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>1579: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shepheardes_Calender" title="The Shepheardes Calender">The Shepheardes Calender</a></i>, published under the pseudonym "Immerito"<sup id="cite_ref-cocel_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cocel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (entered into the Stationers' Register in December<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><i>Iambicum Trimetrum</i></li></ul> <p>1590: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>, Books 1–3</li></ul> <p>1591: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Complaints_(poetry_collection)" title="Complaints (poetry collection)">Complaints, Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie</a></i> (entered into the Stationer's Register in 1590<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), includes: <ul><li>"The Ruines of Time"</li> <li>"The Teares of the Muses"</li> <li>"Virgil's Gnat"</li> <li>"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"</li> <li>"Ruines of Rome: by <a href="/wiki/Joachim_du_Bellay" title="Joachim du Bellay">Bellay</a>"</li> <li>"Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"</li> <li>"Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"</li> <li>"The Visions of <a href="/wiki/Joachim_du_Bellay" title="Joachim du Bellay">Bellay</a>"</li> <li>"The Visions of <a href="/wiki/Petrarch" title="Petrarch">Petrarch</a>"</li></ul></li></ul> <p>1592: </p> <ul><li><i>Axiochus</i>, a translation of a pseudo-Platonic dialogue from the original <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek poetry">Ancient Greek</a>; published by Cuthbert Burbie; attributed to "Edw: Spenser"<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the attribution is uncertain<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier</i> (published in London in January, according to one source;<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> another source gives 1591 as the year<sup id="cite_ref-cocel_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cocel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) It was dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Helena_Snakenborg,_Marchioness_of_Northampton" class="mw-redirect" title="Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton">Helena, Marchioness of Northampton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>1595: </p> <ul><li><i>Amoretti and Epithalamion</i>, containing: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Amoretti" title="Amoretti">Amoretti</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem)" title="Epithalamion (poem)">Epithalamion</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Astrophel_(Edmund_Spenser)" title="Astrophel (Edmund Spenser)">Astrophel. A Pastorall Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Colin_Clouts_Come_Home_Againe" title="Colin Clouts Come Home Againe">Colin Clouts Come Home Againe</a></i></li></ul> <p>1596: </p> <ul><li><i>Fowre Hymnes</i> dedicated from the court at Greenwich;<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> published with the second edition of <i>Daphnaida</i><sup id="cite_ref-cocel_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cocel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prothalamion" title="Prothalamion">Prothalamion</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i>, Books 4–6<sup id="cite_ref-cufeesb_37-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cufeesb-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Babel, Empress of the East – a dedicatory poem prefaced to <a href="/wiki/Lewes_Lewkenor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewes Lewkenor">Lewes Lewkenor</a>'s The Commonwealth of Venice, 1599.</i></li></ul> <p>Posthumous: </p> <ul><li>1609: <i>Two Cantos of Mutabilitie</i> published together with a reprint of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene" title="The Faerie Queene">The Faerie Queene</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-ahccs_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahccs-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1611: First folio edition of Spenser's collected works<sup id="cite_ref-ahccs_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahccs-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1633: <i>A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande</i>, a prose treatise on the reformation of Ireland,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> first published by Sir <a href="/wiki/James_Ware_(historian)" title="James Ware (historian)">James Ware (historian)</a> entitled <i>The Historie of Ireland</i> (Spenser's work was entered into the Stationer's Register in 1598 and circulated in manuscript but not published until it was edited by Ware)<sup id="cite_ref-ahccs_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahccs-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Editions">Editions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Edmund Spenser, <i>Selected Letters and Other Papers</i>. Edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher (Oxford, OUP, 2009).</li> <li>Edmund Spenser, <i>The Faerie Queene</i> (Longman-Annotated-English Poets, 2001, 2007) Edited by A. C. Hamilton, Text Edited by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hybiblio/1_HTML.html">Hiroshi Yamashita and Toshiyuki Suzuki</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232729/http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hybiblio/1_HTML.html">Archived</a> 3 March 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Digital_archive">Digital archive</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Digital archive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Washington_University_in_St._Louis" title="Washington University in St. Louis">Washington University in St. Louis</a> professor Joseph Lowenstein, with the assistance of several undergraduate students, has been involved in creating, editing, and annotating a digital archive of the first publication of poet Edmund Spenser's collective works in 100 years. A large grant from the <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities" title="National Endowment for the Humanities">National Endowment for the Humanities</a> has been given to support this ambitious project centralized at <a href="/wiki/Washington_University_in_St._Louis" title="Washington University in St. Louis">Washington University</a> with support from other colleges in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="#cite_ref-cufeesb_37-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cufeesb_37-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cufeesb_37-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cufeesb_37-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Web page titled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm">"Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102013123/http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm">Archived</a> 2 January 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, "Chronology" section (at bottom of Chronology, Web page states: "Source: adapted from <a href="/wiki/Willy_Maley" title="Willy Maley">Willy Maley</a>, <i>A Spenser Chronology</i>."), at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English website, retrieved 24 September 2009</span> </li> <li 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University Press, 2001, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3">0-521-64199-3</a>, p xix, retrieved via Google Books, 24 September 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 1788. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=muoSAAAAIAAJ&dq=helena+marchioness+of+northampton&pg=RA2-PA51">Google eBooks</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ahccs-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ahccs_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ahccs_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ahccs_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hadfield, Andrew, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kc__ztz7j0UC"><i>The Cambridge Companion to Spenser</i></a>, "Chronology", Cambridge University Press, 2001, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3">0-521-64199-3</a>, p xx, retrieved via Google Books, 24 September 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Web page titled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm">"Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102013123/http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm">Archived</a> 2 January 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English website, retrieved 24 September 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/joe-loewenstein">"Joe Loewenstein"</a>. <i>Arts & Sciences</i>. 31 May 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 August</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Arts+%26+Sciences&rft.atitle=Joe+Loewenstein&rft.date=2019-05-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fartsci.wustl.edu%2Ffaculty-staff%2Fjoe-loewenstein&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/10206.html">"Digitizing the works of a 16th-century poet: Spenser Project receives NEH Scholarly Editions Grant"</a>. <i>Record</i>. 4 October 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Record&rft.atitle=Digitizing+the+works+of+a+16th-century+poet%3A+Spenser+Project+receives+NEH+Scholarly+Editions+Grant&rft.date=2007-10-04&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frecord.wustl.edu%2Fnews%2Fpage%2Fnormal%2F10206.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Croft, Ryan J. "Sanctified Tyrannicide: Tyranny And Theology in John Ponet's Shorte Treatise of Politike Power And Edmund "Spenser's The Faerie Queene." <i>Studies in Philosophy</i>, 108.4 (2011): 538–571. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 8 October 2012.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDasenbrock1985" class="citation journal cs1">Dasenbrock, Reed Way (January 1985). "The Petrarchan Context of Spenser's <i>Amoretti</i>". <i>PMLA</i>. <b>100</b> (1).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=PMLA&rft.atitle=The+Petrarchan+Context+of+Spenser%27s+Amoretti&rft.volume=100&rft.issue=1&rft.date=1985-01&rft.aulast=Dasenbrock&rft.aufirst=Reed+Way&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFElliott1968" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_R._Elliott&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John R. Elliott (page does not exist)">Elliott, John</a>, ed. (1968). <i>The Prince of Poets</i>. New York: New York University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8020-2676-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8020-2676-1"><bdi>0-8020-2676-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Prince+of+Poets&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=New+York+University+Press&rft.date=1968&rft.isbn=0-8020-2676-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHadfield2001" class="citation book cs1">Hadfield, Andrew, ed. (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kc__ztz7j0UC"><i>The Cambridge Companion to Spenser</i></a>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-64199-3"><bdi>0-521-64199-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Spenser&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-521-64199-3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dkc__ztz7j0UC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHadfield2012" class="citation book cs1">Hadfield, Andrew (2012). <i>Edmund Spenser: A Life</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-64199-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-64199-9"><bdi>978-0-521-64199-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Edmund+Spenser%3A+A+Life&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-521-64199-9&rft.aulast=Hadfield&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenderson1990" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Henderson, A. C., ed. (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LPxd5sliodAC"><i>The Spenser Encyclopedia</i></a>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8020-2676-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8020-2676-1"><bdi>0-8020-2676-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Spenser+Encyclopedia&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-8020-2676-1&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLPxd5sliodAC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdmund+Spenser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Henley,_Pauline&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henley, Pauline (page does not exist)">Henley, Pauline</a>. <i>Spenser in Ireland</i>. Cork: Cork University Press, 1928.</li> <li>Johnson, William. "The struggle between good and evil in the first book of 'The Faerie Queene'." <i>English Studies</i>, Vol. 74,</li> <li>Maley, Willy. "Spenser's Life". <i>The Oxford Dictionary of Edmund Spenser</i>. Ed. Richard A. McCabe. 1st Ed. 2010. Print.</li> <li>Rust, Jennifer. "Spenser's The Faerie Queene." Saint Louis University, St. Louis. 10 October 2007. No. 6. (December 1993) p. 507–519.</li> <li>Wadoski, Andrew. <i>Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modernity</i>. Manchester University Press, June 2022, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5261-6543-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5261-6543-5">978-1-5261-6543-5</a>.</li> <li>Zarucchi, Jeanne Morgan. "Du Bellay, Spenser, and Quevedo Search for Rome: A Teacher's Peregrination." <i>The French Review</i>, 17:2 (December 1997), pp. 192–203.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edmund_Spenser&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original works by or about:<br /><b style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Edmund_Spenser" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a></i></b></div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Edmund_Spenser" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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