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Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. [1]

70 relations: Alexander Pope, Alexandrine, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allegory, Amoretti, Ancient Greek literature, Areopagitica, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, Astrophel (Edmund Spenser), Baptista Mantuanus, Ben Jonson, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, Complaints (poetry collection), Duns Scotus, Early Irish law, Eclogues, Edmund Molyneux, Elizabeth I of England, Epic poetry, Epithalamion (poem), Gabriel Harvey, Geoffrey Chaucer, House of Tudor, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Iambic pentameter, Il Canzoniere, Irish language, Joachim du Bellay, John Keats, John Milton, John Skelton, John Young (bishop of Rochester), Lewes Lewknor, Lord Byron, Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Mother Hubberd's Tale, Munster Blackwater, Nine Years' War (Ireland), Ovid, Oxford University Press, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Petrarch, Plantations of Ireland, Poet laureate, Poets' Corner, Prothalamion, Quatrain, ..., Samuel Daniel, Scorched earth, Second Desmond Rebellion, Siege of Smerwick, Sizar, Spenserian stanza, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, The Shepheardes Calender, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Churchyard, Thomas Fuller, Tudor conquest of Ireland, Virgil, Walter Raleigh, Westminster Abbey, William Blake, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, William Wordsworth, Willy Maley. Expand index (20 more) »

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

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Alexandrine

Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Allegory

As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

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Amoretti

Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century.

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Ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.

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Areopagitica

Areopagitica; A speech of Mr.

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Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton

The Rt Hon. Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, KG (1536–1593), was a baron in the Peerage of England.

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Astrophel (Edmund Spenser)

Astrophel “A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney” is Spenser's tribute to the memory of Sir Philip Sidney, who had died in 1586 and was dedicated “To the most beautifull and vertuous Ladie, the Countesse of Essex,” Frances Walsingham, Sidney’s widow.

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Baptista Mantuanus

Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus (Battista Mantovano, English: Battista the Mantuan or simply Mantuan; also known as Johannes Baptista Spagnolo; 17 April 1447 – 20 March 1516) was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.

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Chief Secretary for Ireland

The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland.

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Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (also known as Colin Clouts Come Home Again) is a pastoral poem by the English poet Edmund Spenser and published in 1595.

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Complaints (poetry collection)

Complaints is a poetry collection by Edmund Spenser, published in 1591.

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Duns Scotus

John Duns, commonly called Duns Scotus (1266 – 8 November 1308), is generally considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages (together with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham).

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Early Irish law

Early Irish law, also called Brehon law, comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland.

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Eclogues

The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.

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Edmund Molyneux

Edmund Molyneux (fl. 1587), was a biographer and Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Epithalamion (poem)

01 Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion is an ode written to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594.

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Gabriel Harvey

Gabriel Harvey (c. 1552/3 – 1631) was an English writer.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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House of Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd.

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Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone

Hugh O'Neill (Irish: Aodh Mór Ó Néill; literally Hugh The Great O'Neill; c. 1550 – 20 July 1616), was an Irish Gaelic lord, Earl of Tyrone (known as the Great Earl) and was later created The Ó Néill.

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Iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter is a type of metrical line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.

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Il Canzoniere

Il Canzoniere (Song Book), also known as the Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes), but originally titled Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of common things, that is Fragments composed in vernacular), is a collection of poems by the Italian humanist, poet, and writer Petrarch.

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Joachim du Bellay

Joachim du Bellay (also Joachim Du Bellay;; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Skelton

John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1463 – 21 June 1529), possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England.

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John Young (bishop of Rochester)

John Young (c. 1532 – 1605) was an English academic and bishop.

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Lewes Lewknor

Sir Lewes Lewknor (c.1560–1627) was an English courtier, M.P., writer, soldier, and Judge who served as Master of the Ceremonies to King James I of England.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Lord Deputy of Ireland

The Lord Deputy was the representative of the monarch and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and then the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 till the Partition of Ireland in 1922.

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Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

Merchant Taylors' School (MTS) is a British independent private day school for boys.

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Mother Hubberd's Tale

Mother Hubberd's Tale is a poem by English poet Edmund Spenser, written in 1578–1579.

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Munster Blackwater

The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (An Abha Mhór, The Big River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork, and Waterford in Ireland.

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Nine Years' War (Ireland)

The Nine Years' War or Tyrone's Rebellion took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists.

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Plantations of Ireland

Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of land by the English crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from the island of Great Britain.

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Poet laureate

A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

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Prothalamion

Prothalamion, the commonly used name of,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor Period in England.

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Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

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Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel (1562 – 14 October 1619) was an English poet and historian.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location.

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Second Desmond Rebellion

The Second Desmond rebellion (1579–1583) was the more widespread and bloody of the two Desmond Rebellions launched by the FitzGerald dynasty of Desmond in Munster, Ireland, against English rule in Ireland.

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Siege of Smerwick

The Siege of Smerwick took place at Ard na Caithne (formerly known in English as Smerwick) in 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion in Ireland.

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Sizar

At Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined job.

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Spenserian stanza

The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

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The Shepheardes Calender

The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579.

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Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.

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Thomas Churchyard

Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520 – 1604), English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.

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Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian.

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Tudor conquest of Ireland

The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place under the Tudor dynasty, which held the Kingdom of England during the 16th century.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, (13 September 15204 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Willy Maley

William Timothy "Willy" Maley (born 2 December 1960, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish literary critic, editor, teacher and writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser

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