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Edmund Spenser [1552-1599] ENG
Ranked #100 in the top 380 poets
Votes 76%: 285 up, 92 down

Born in or near 1552 to a family of modest means, Edmund Spenser was possibly the son of John Spenser, a free journeyman clothmaker resident in East Smithfield in London, though this relationship is far from certain. Whatever his parentage, it is likely that the Spensers (or Spencers) originated in Lancashire, where they would have been connected with prominent local families such as the Nowells and Towneleys. Spenser seems to have had at least one sister, Sarah, and a number of brothers. As a boy, the future poet entered the Merchant Taylors` school, probably at its opening in 1561 under the celebrated humanist and pedagogical writer Richard Mulcaster; his place there maHe was the friend of men eminent in literature and at court, including Gabriel Harvey, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester. After serving as secretary to the Bishop of Rochester, Spenser was appointed in 1580 secretary to Lord Grey, lord deputy of Ireland. Afterward Spenser lived in Ireland, holding minor civil offices and receiving the lands and castle of Kilcolman, Co. Cork. In 1589, under Raleigh’s sponsorship, Spenser went to London, where he apparently sought court preferment and publication of the first three books of The Faerie Queene. After the Tyrone rebellion of 1598, in which Kilcolman Castle was burned, he returned to London, where he died in 1599. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet

YearsCountryPoetInteraction
-70--19
ROM
Virgil
→ influenced Edmund Spenser
-43--17
ROM
Ovid
→ influenced Edmund Spenser
1552-1618
ENG
Walter Raleigh
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1688-1744
ENG
Alexander Pope
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1770-1850
ENG
William Wordsworth
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1788-1824
ENG
George Gordon Byron
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1795-1821
ENG
John Keats
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1809-1892
ENG
Alfred Lord Tennyson
→ praised Edmund Spenser
1608-1674
ENG
John Milton
← influenced by Edmund Spenser
1757-1827
ENG
William Blake
← influenced by Edmund Spenser
1777-1844
SCO
Thomas Campbell
← influenced by Edmund Spenser
1865-1939
IRL
William Butler Yeats
← early influenced by Edmund Spenser


WorkLangRating
My Love Is Like To Ice
eng
47
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
eng
22
Ice and Fire
eng
11
Sonnet 75
eng
2
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
eng
1
Poem 8
eng
1
Sonnet LXXIX
eng
1
Sonnet LXXVII
eng
1
Sonnet XXVI
eng
1
Sonnet XXXIX
eng
1
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV
eng
1
The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I
eng
1
A Ditty
eng
0
Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
eng
0
Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
eng
0
Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
eng
0
Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
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0
Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season
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0
An Hymne In Honour Of Beautie
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0
An Hymne In Honour Of Love
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0
An Hymne Of Heavenly Beautie
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0
An Hymne of Heavenly Love
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0
And is there care in heaven, and is there love
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0
Astrophel
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0
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
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0
Easter
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0
Epithalamion
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0
From `Daphnaida`
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0
Iambicum Trimetrum
eng
0
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie
eng
0
Mutability
eng
0
Poem 1
eng
0
Poem 10
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0
Poem 11
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0
Poem 12
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0
Poem 13
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0
Poem 14
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0
Poem 15
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0
Poem 16
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0
Poem 17
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Poem 18
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0
Poem 19
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0
Poem 2
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0
Poem 20
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Poem 21
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0
Poem 22
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0
Poem 23
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Poem 24
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0
Poem 3
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Poem 4
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Poem 5
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Poem 6
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Poem 7
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0
Poem 9
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Poem 90
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Poem 91
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Poem 92
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Poem 93
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Poem 94
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Poem 95
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Poem 96
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Poem 97
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0
Prosopopoia : or, Mother Hubbards Tale
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0
Prothalamion
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0
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay
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0
So Let Us Love
eng
0
Sonnet 54
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0
Sonnet I
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0
Sonnet II
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0
Sonnet III
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0
Sonnet IIII
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0
Sonnet IX
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0
Sonnet L
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0
Sonnet LI
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0
Sonnet LII
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0
Sonnet LIII
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0
Sonnet LIIII
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0
Sonnet LIX
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0
Sonnet LV
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0
Sonnet LVI
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0
Sonnet LVII
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0
Sonnet LVIII By Her That Is Most Assured To Her Selfe
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0
Sonnet LX
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0
Sonnet LXI
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0
Sonnet LXII
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0
Sonnet LXIII
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0
Sonnet LXIIII
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0
Sonnet LXIX
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0
Sonnet LXV
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0
Sonnet LXVI
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0
Sonnet LXVII
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0
Sonnet LXVIII
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0
Sonnet LXX
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0
Sonnet LXXI
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0
Sonnet LXXII
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0
Sonnet LXXIII
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0
Sonnet LXXIIII
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0
Sonnet LXXVI
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0
Sonnet LXXX
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0
Sonnet LXXXI
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0
Sonnet LXXXII
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0
Sonnet LXXXIII
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0
Sonnet LXXXIIII
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0
Sonnet LXXXIX
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0
Sonnet LXXXV
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0
Sonnet LXXXVI
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0
Sonnet LXXXVII
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0
Sonnet LXXXVIII
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0
Sonnet V
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0
Sonnet VI
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0
Sonnet VII
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0
Sonnet VIII
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0
Sonnet X
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0
Sonnet XI
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0
Sonnet XII
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0
Sonnet XIII
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0
Sonnet XIIII
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0
Sonnet XIX
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0
Sonnet XL
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0
Sonnet XLII
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0
Sonnet XLIII
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0
Sonnet XLIIII
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0
Sonnet XLV
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0
Sonnet XLVI
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0
Sonnet XLVII
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0
Sonnet XLVIII
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0
Sonnet XV
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0
Sonnet XVI
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0
Sonnet XVII
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0
Sonnet XVIII
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0
Sonnet XX
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0
Sonnet XXI
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0
Sonnet XXII
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0
Sonnet XXIII
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0
Sonnet XXIIII
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0
Sonnet XXIX
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0
Sonnet XXV
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0
Sonnet XXVII
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0
Sonnet XXVIII
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0
Sonnet XXX
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0
Sonnet XXXI
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0
Sonnet XXXII
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0
Sonnet XXXIII
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0
Sonnet XXXIIII
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0
Sonnet XXXV
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0
Sonnet XXXVI
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0
Sonnet XXXVII
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0
Sonnet XXXVIII
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0
The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto XII
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0
The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto VI
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0
The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Canto X
eng
0
The Faerie Qveene
eng
0
The Ruines of Time
eng
0
The Shepheardes Calender: April
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0
The Shepheardes Calender: August
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0
The Shepheardes Calender: December
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The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie
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The Shepheardes Calender: Januarie
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The Shepheardes Calender: July
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The Shepheardes Calender: June
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The Shepheardes Calender: March
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The Shepheardes Calender: May
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The Shepheardes Calender: November
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The Shepheardes Calender: October
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0
The Shepheardes Calender: September
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0
The Tamed Deer
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0
The Teares of the Muses
eng
0
The Visions Of Bellay
eng
0
The Visions Of Petrarch
eng
0
Virgils Gnat
eng
0
Visions of the worlds vanitie.
eng
0

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