Edmund Spenser: the boyhood of a poet.

Contemporary Review | February 1, 1994| | Copyright

EDMUND Spenser was born in 1553, the waning year of both King Edward VI and the English Reformation. Throughout the land the flux of sectarianism was renewed: Anglican against Catholic, Puritan and Anabaptist against Anglican. Into that renewal of religious controversy Spenser was thrust from his earliest years, so that his first publication, whilst he was still a schoolboy, was a set of verse-translations for an evangelical tract. Spenser's family, although impoverished, was of patrician descent. John Spenser, his father, was a jobbing cloth-worker from Lancashire, yet ...

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