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Edmund Spenser

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A. Kent Hieatt
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, London. Author of Short Time's Endless Monument: The Symbolism of the Numbers in Spenser's Epithalamion and others; coeditor of Spenser's...
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Born:
1552/53, London, England
Died:
January 13, 1599, London

Edmund Spenser (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London) was an English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza. Little is certainly known about Spenser. He was related to a noble Midlands family of Spencer, whose fortunes had been made through sheep raising. His own immediate family was not wealthy. He was entered as a “poor boy” in the Merchant Taylors’ grammar school, where he would have studied mainly Latin, with some Hebrew, Greek, and music. In ...(100 of 2902 words)

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