Spenser’s poetry influenced Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron. Traces of his plots and characters are clearly visible in Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings.’ ‘ ...

Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) can be rightfully considered England’s finest poet of the sixteenth century. (Shakespeare and Donne, his ...

Spenser is not a boring writer, certainly not "Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet", as Karl Marx rather rudely called him, and his work is notable mainly for its ceaseless experimentalism.

The Renaissance idea of a great national poet, the idea on which so many defenses of poetry were implicitly or explicitly based, found its first English incarnation in the career of Edmund Spenser.

On the south wall of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a marble memorial to Edmund Spenser, poet and author of The Faerie Queene, which he dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Clifford, Countess ...

Edmund Spenser: a life, By Andrew Hadfield This definitive portrait brings fresh life to a magnificent but maligned poet Jerry Brotton Friday 10 August 2012 17:17 BST 0 Comments ...

Many people claim to have read The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, but most haven’t read it cover to cover. I have. As one of the longest poems ever written in the English language, this was no ...

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When the THE FIRST POET LAUREATE. When the office of poet laureate was first instituted is open to much doubt; but the roll of Court with EDMUND SPENSER, of Faerie Queens celebrity.

Andrew Hadfield’s life of Spenser is the first biography of the Prince of Poets, as his epitaph had it, in 60 years, and I cannot imagine anyone doing a better job for another 60. He strikes a ...