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Hace 2 días · The typically Renaissance form of the stanzaic epic showcases another novel form, illustrated by the interlocking stanzas of Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590–1596), and the ironic mimicking of that form with difference in Donne’s Metempsychosis (dated 1601 but not published until 1633).
Hace 5 días · It was in Fulke's time that Edmund Spenser, Pembroke's first real poet, and his friend Gabriel Harvey, the poetaster, entered the College. Before the beginning of the regular Accession Book in 1616 it is only by chance that the presence of a given man in the College can be established.
Hace 4 días · Here, too, Edmund Spenser, the author of "The Faery Queen," after his escape from the troubles in Ireland, spent the last few weeks of his life, and died in actual penury and even in want of bread. Such was the end of the man who had sung the praises of the great Elizabeth in higher than mere courtly strains.
Hace 2 días · Monday, July 1, 2024. We are delighted to announce that the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association recently acquired a unique item from John Keats’s personal library. Keats’s copy of The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr Edmund Spenser was printed in London by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin in 1679. It is the third edition of Spenser’s ...
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Hace 3 días · So too would have been the cultural explosion that produced William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, and John Donne.
Hace 2 días · Sonnet 75. One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. "Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay. A mortall thing so to immortalize,
