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Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599 / London / England)
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Edmund Spenser Edmund was the eldest son of John Spenser, a Lancastrian gentleman by birth who had become a journeyman of the Merchant Taylors' Company. Spencer attended the recently-founded Merchant Taylors' School and then went to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge. While still at university he wrote some verses in the style of Petrarch and Du Bellay, and these were published in van der Noodt's "Theatre for Worldlings". On leaving Cambridge, Spenser became secretary to John Young, the bishop of Rochester. In 1579 he obtained a place in the Earl of Leicester's household where he made friends with the Earl's nephew, Philip Sidney. He wrote the Shepheardes Calender at this time. The following year he began work on The Faerie Queene though he published none of it until 1589 when he entrusted the first three books to his London publisher, Ponsonby. He also married his first wife, Machabyas Chylde, at about this time. In 1580 Spenser was appointed secretary to Lord Grey of Wilton and attended him on his trip to Ireland. Spenser returned to settle in Ireland in 1591 and wrote Colin Clouts in this year. He became a landowner and returned to London only to supervise the publication of his poetry. He married again to Elizabeth Boyle in 1594 and his poems Amoretti and Epithalamion celebrate the wooing and marriage. more >>
 
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''Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate,''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil D...
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''Dark is my day whiles her fair light I miss,
And dead my life, that wants such lively bliss.''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 13-14). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil...
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Sidi Mahtrow (11/28/2011 5:20:00 PM)
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Juan, how can he be dead, I just visited another poet's site on poemhunter and saw in the list of people who read that poet's poems that Edmund was listed. How can it be?
Juan Olivarez (11/19/2011 7:12:00 PM)
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Take a hike bimbo poemhunter is on to you, besides if you don't know it, this guy can't answer, he's dead.

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