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Spenser, Edmund
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Spenser, Edmund (1552–99). Elizabethan poet, mythographer, and colonial administrator. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Cambridge, Spenser briefly belonged to the household of the earl of
Leicester, and his political affiliations remained those of the Sidney/Leicester circle. His pastoral,
The Shepheardes Calender, effectively marks the beginning of the Elizabethan ‘golden age’ of poetry; his masterpiece,
The Faerie Queene (Books 1–3, 1590)—a vast, consciously archaic chivalric allegory—is the finest example both of the ‘cult of Elizabeth’ and of the project for a ‘reformation’ in English poetics. He published the sonnet sequence
Amoretti (culminating in ‘Epithalamion’) and
Colin Clouts Come Home Agayne in 1595, and a year later
Fowre Hymnes and
Prothalamion. His last published work,
A View of the Present State of Ireland, advocated harsh colonial measures. His estate at Kilcolman was, perhaps fittingly, destroyed during the
Tyrone uprising, and he fled to England in 1598 where he died a year later.
Gordon Macmullan
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Documenting Edmund Spenser: a new life record.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...standard biography of Edmund Spenser that was to be published...and the editors of the Spenser Variorum appear to have...nearly twenty years that Edmund Spenser spent in Ireland...a new life record for Edmund Spenser, clarify important...
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Edmund Spenser: the boyhood of a poet.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...for an evangelical tract. Spenser's family, although impoverished...of patrician descent. John Spenser, his father, was a jobbing...Althrop (probably as one of the Spensers of Hurstwood, near Burnley in Lancashire), which makes Edmund Spenser the collateral ancestor of...
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Edmund Spenser: A Reception History and Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Edmund Spenser: A Reception History. By DAVID HILL...pound]37.50; $67.50. Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism...If English poetry does not begin with Edmund Spenser, a case could be made that English...
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Spenser's filthy matter.(sexuality in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene")
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...allusion to Tasso as well: Spenser tempers the sexual power...as alluding to book 1 of Spenser's own poem as well as to...WORKS CITED Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Ed...Queene, Book 2. The Works of Edmund Sp
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Edmund Spenser, Mary Sidney, and the Doleful Lay.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Clorinda' is hers, though Spenser's poem explicitly says it...Lay' seems of a piece with Spenser's introductory poem preceding...the poem's attribution to Spenser. (12) Anne Lake Prescott...Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser observes that the countess...
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Frushell, Richard C. Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth Century: Education, Imitation, and the Making of a Literary Model.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...led to many of them becoming Spenser imitators" and that "the...appearances and the `packaging' of Spenser in the early eighteenth century...third longer than Frushell's Spenser Encyclopedia (1990) bibliography...s citational approach to Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth...
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Introduction: Spenser's paratexts.(Edmund Spenser)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; With the exception of Edmund Spenser's Letter to Ralegh, the front and...Thomas Wharton spoke famously of Spenser's having written the Dedicatory...discouraged careful attention to the sonnets Spenser actually wrote. Until recently...
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Metapoetry in Edmund Spenser's Amoretti.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Garden of Venus represents one of Edmund Spenser's most striking testimonials...and the centrality of art in Spenser's epic has long been recognized...crucial role assigned to art in Spenser's masterful sonnet sequence Amoretti...
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Edmund Spenser and English policy in Ireland: Howard Amos interrogates a key text on colonialism and assesses its influence.(The Julia Wood Price for 2004)
Magazine article from: History Review; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...still a Catholic country in 1547. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) served as secretary...experience of Ireland, much like Spenser himself. William Blake wrote that...course of events. Spencer on Ireland Edmund Spenser's View is clearly an example...
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The evolution of modern Irish poetry.("Befitting Emblems of Adversity": A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the Present)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Adversity": A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the Present...Adversity": A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the...imaginative and analytic efforts of Edmund Spenser and the work of the poets...
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Edmund Spenser
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599) ranks as the fore most English poet of...Queene, he is the poet of an ordered yet passionate Elizabethan world. Edmund Spenser was a man of his times, and his work reflects the religious...
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Spenser, Edmund (1552 or 1553–1599)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
SPENSER, EDMUND (1552 or 1553 – 1599) SPENSER, EDMUND (1552 or 1553 – 1599), English poet and author. Born in London, perhaps at East Smithfield, Spenser was educated at the newly founded Merchant Taylors' School and...
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Spenser, Edmund (1552–1599)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Spenser, Edmund (1552 – 1599) English poet...the Renaissance. The son of a tailor, Spenser was born in London, where he attended...The success of this volume encouraged Spenser in the laborious endeavor of writing a...
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Spenser, Edmund
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Spenser, Edmund (1552–99) English poet. Spenser's debut volume was the pastoral The Shepheardes Calender...sequence Amoretti was published with Epithalamion in 1595. Spenser's masterpiece is The Faerie Queene (1589–...
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John Keats
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in Edmonton. Then it was that Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene awakened him...poetry. The imaginative beauty of Spenser's world of fantasy fulfilled...stanzas entitled "Imitation of Spenser." On Oct. 2, 1815, Keats was...
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