Edmund Spenser





Edmund Spenser

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born
London, England, The United Kingdom
died
January 13, 1599

gender
male

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Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an important English poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem celebrating, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

Though he is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, Spenser is also a controversial figure due to his zeal for the destruction of Irish culture and colonisation of Ireland.


Average rating: 3.55 · 8,408 ratings · 309 reviews · 80 distinct works · Similar authors
The Faerie Queene
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3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 7,149 ratings — published 1590 — 56 editions
Edmund Spenser's Poetry
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1887 — 19 editions
The Faerie Queene: Book One
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1960 — 23 editions
The Shorter Poems
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
Amoretti and Epithalamion
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1595 — 6 editions
The Faerie Queene. Book Two
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1919 — 13 editions
Amoretti
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
The Faerie Queene. Books Th...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
The Works of Edmund Spenser
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1897 — 27 editions
The Faerie Queene: Books I ...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1590
More books by Edmund Spenser…
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

“So furiously each other did assayle,
As if their soules they would attonce haue rent
Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle
Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent;
That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent,
And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore,
Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent,
So mortall was their malice and so sore,
Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.”
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books Three And Four

“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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