Edmund spenser

by Nina Green First published in the 1998 edition of The Oxfordian Edmund Spenser, undated anonymous portrait Scholars have never satisfactorily identified the mysterious individual known only as E.K.

Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London), 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. Little is certainly known about Spenser. He was related to a noble Midlands family of Spencer, whose fortunes had been made through sheep raising. His own immediate family was not wealthy. He was entered as a “poor boy” in the Merchant Taylors’…

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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) - portrait by Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855) - date pictured circa 1594 - date painted 1800 - 16th century - 19th century // enamel miniature - male portraits - portraits of men

Edmund Spenser English poet 1552 - 1599

Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calender... rare book for sale. This First Edition by Edmund SPENSER is available at Bauman Rare Books.

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Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands, / which hold my life in their dead doing might / shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands, / lyke captives trembling