EDMUND SPENSER

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser:-

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for the Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the tumor and Elizabeth 1. he is recognized as one of the premiers craftsmen of nascent modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. edmund Spenser was born in London within the year 1552 or 1553. little is known about his family or his chihood, except that he received a scholarship to attend the Merchant Taylor school where he likely studied Latin and Greek. he4 went on to study literature and religion at Cambridge University,s Pembroke hall, receiving a BA in 1573 and an MA in 1576.

spenser revealed his initial volume of poetry, the shepheardes calender (Hugh singleton), in1579, dedicating it to the poet Sir Philip Sidney. he was additionally the author of the Faerie Queene (1596), a major English epic, and Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595), a sonnet sequence dedicated to his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle.

Alongside his poetry, Spenser pursued a career in p[olitics, serving as a secretary first for the bishop of Rochester and then for the earl of Leicester, who introduced him to alternative poets and artists in Queen Elizabeth's court. in 1580, he was appointed a secretary to the lord deputy of Ireland; later, in 1596, he wrote an inflammatory pamphlet called a view of the present state of Ireland (James ware, 1633). in 1598, during the nine years of war, Spenser was driven from his home in Ireland. he died in London in1599 and was buried in poets corner in Westminster Abbey.