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Spenser, Edmund (1552/53-1599)
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.
Select Texts:
- The shepheardes calender. 1579.
- Three proper, and wittie, familiar letters: lately passed betvveene tvvo vniuersitie men: touching the earthquake in Aprill last, and our English refourmed versifying. 1580.
- The faerie qveene. 1590.
- Complaints. 1591.
- Daphna. 1591.
- Amoretti and Epithalamion. 1595.
- Colin Clouts come home againe. 1595.
- Fovvre hymnes. 1596.
- Prothalamion or A spousall verse made by Edm. Spenser. In honour of the double mariage of the two honorable & vertuous ladies, the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katherine Somerset, daughters to the Right Honourable the Earle of Worcester and espoused to the two worthie gentlemen M. Henry Gilford, and M. William Peter Esquyers. 1596.
- A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke. 1611.
- A letter of the authors. 1611.
- Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale. 1612.
