edmund spenser

     

Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, he idealized his boss as a knight in "The Faerie Queene"

Trivia about edmund spenser

  • There was a 6-year gap between the publications of the first 3 books of his "Faerie Queene" & the last 3
  • 16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him
  • "My love is like to ice, and I to fire" wrote this "Faerie Queene" poet in his sonnet sequence "Amoretti"
  • This "Faerie Queene" poet is also famous for his 1595 work "Amoretti", a series of 89 love sonnets
  • A poet himself, Raleigh encouraged this man to publish "The Faerie Queene"

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