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4 unusual facts about Edmund Spenser


Dorothy Kitson

The three Spencer sisters are referred to as 'Phyllis, Charillis, and sweet Amaryllis’ in the poet Edmund Spenser's Colin Clout’s Come Home Again (1595).

Edmund Spenser

As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

He later bought a second holding to the south, at Rennie, on a rock overlooking the river Blackwater in North Cork.

River Suir

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) author of the The Fairie Queene, in his writings during the Elizabethan age while domiciled in County Cork, referred to the 'gentle Shure', probable a most accurate spelling and the most phonetically correct of the period.


Braggadocio, Missouri

The community was founded in 1847 and according to Robert L. Ramsay, was named for the vainglorious knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

Chivalric romance

Prose literature thus increasingly dominanted the expression of romance narrative in the later Middle Ages, at least until the resurgence of verse during the high Renaissance in the oeuvres of Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, and Edmund Spenser.

David Norbrook

In Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Norbrook explains the political context and events that influenced writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.

Diego Valverde Villena

He has translated into Spanish literary works written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, George Herbert, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski, Paul Éluard, Joachim du Bellay, Valery Larbaud, Nuno Júdice, Jorge Sousa Braga, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Paul Celan.

Englands Helicon

The poets involved cannot all be identified, since there are a number of poems marked as 'anonymous': they do include Edmund Bolton, William Byrd, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith.

Ethelbert White

In the same year the Golden Cockerel Press published an edition of Spenser's Wedding Songs with colour wood engravings by White.

Harold Shea

The "worlds" so examined include not only the Norse world of "The Roaring Trumpet," but those of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in "The Mathematics of Magic," Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (with a brief stop in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan) in "The Castle of Iron," the Kalevala in "The Wall of Serpents," and finally (at last), Irish mythology in "The Green Magician."

Myrtle Grove, Youghal

"Myrtle Grove," a poem written in Spenserian stanzas by James Reiss, and published in Fugue magazine (the University of Idaho), summer/fall 2007, pp. 22-24, develops the legend that Edmund Spenser wrote portions of his great epic, The Faerie Queene, under an aureole window in the South Gable of Raleigh's house.

Plantations of Ireland

Famous English Undertakers of the Munster Plantation include Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, and Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.

Robert Tofte

Though no student of law, Tofte kept his lodgings in Holborn near London's Inns of Court, societies that included Edmund Spenser, John Harington, and John Marston as members.

Sir Thomas Norris

Norris is mentioned by Lodowick Bryskett as one of the company to whom Edmund Spenser on a well-known occasion unfolded his project of the The Faerie Queene.

The Complete Compleat Enchanter

The five stories collected in The Complete Compleat Enchanter explore the worlds of Norse mythology in "The Roaring Trumpet," Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in "The Mathematics of Magic," Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (with a brief stop in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan) in "The Castle of Iron," the Kalevala in "The Wall of Serpents," and Irish mythology in "The Green Magician."

Una and the Lion

The depiction of the young Queen as Lady Una (a character from Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene, from 1590) was seen at the time as a bold design decision as it was the first occasion when a British monarch had been depicted on a coin as a fictional character.

William Henry Schofield

Some of the best known are volume II in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, Chivalry in English Literature, published 1912 and on Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare, and volume V in the same series, Mythical Bards and The Life of William Wallace published 1920, about Blind Harry, Major's evidence, Master Blair and William Wallace.


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Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Prince Arthur

King Arthur also features as "Prince Arthur" in some works, as in Richard Blackmore's epic Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen