Edmund Spenser
Born: 1552/1553
Died: 13 January 1599, London, England
Age: 46/47
Resting Place: Westminster Abbey
Occupation: Poet
Period: 1569-1599
Notable Works: The Faerie Queens
Died: 13 January 1599, London, England
Age: 46/47
Resting Place: Westminster Abbey
Occupation: Poet
Period: 1569-1599
Notable Works: The Faerie Queens
About Spenser's Life:
Edmund Spenser was born in East Smith field, London, around the year 1552, though there is some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman cloth maker. As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylor's' School and matriculated as a sizer at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Spenser’s short poem:
Spenser published numerous relatively short poems in the last decade of the sixteenth century, Mostly Spenser wrote about love or sorrow. Spenser published “Amoretti” and "Epithalamion".
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Spenser's works:
"The Ruines of Time"
"The Teares of the Muses"
"Virgil's Gnat"
"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"
"Ruines of Rome: by Bellay"
"Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"
"Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"
"The Visions of Bellay"
"The Visions of Petrarch"
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Characteristic of Spenser's poetry:
The five characteristic of Spenser's poetry:
1. A perfect melody
2. A rare sense of beauty
3. A splendid imagination
4. A dedicate idealism
5. A lofty moral purity and seriousness
Spenserian Stanza:
For the "Faery Queen" Spenser invented a new verse form, which has been called since his day the Spenserian stanza. Because of its rare beauty it has been much used by nearly all our poets in their best work.