Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser was a major English Renaissance poet best known for his epic allegorical poem "The Faerie Queene."

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instanceOf English poet
Renaissance poet
human
poet
almaMater University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
birthCountry Kingdom of England NERFINISHED
birthPlace London
birthYear 1552
birthYearApproximate true
burialPlace Westminster Abbey NERFINISHED
burialSiteSection Poets' Corner NERFINISHED
createdForm Spenserian stanza NERFINISHED
deathCountry Kingdom of England NERFINISHED
deathPlace London NERFINISHED
deathYear 1599
educatedAt Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
familyName Spenser NERFINISHED
genre allegorical poetry
epic poetry
pastoral poetry
givenName Edmund NERFINISHED
influenced John Keats NERFINISHED
John Milton NERFINISHED
Lord Byron NERFINISHED
Percy Bysshe Shelley NERFINISHED
William Wordsworth NERFINISHED
influencedBy Geoffrey Chaucer NERFINISHED
Italian Renaissance poets NERFINISHED
knownFor Shepheardes Calender NERFINISHED
Spenserian stanza NERFINISHED
The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED
language English
literaryPeriod Elizabethan era NERFINISHED
movement English Renaissance NERFINISHED
name Edmund Spenser NERFINISHED
nationality English
occupation civil servant
poet
patron Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester NERFINISHED
Sir Walter Raleigh NERFINISHED
residence County Cork NERFINISHED
servedAs secretary in Ireland
work A View of the Present State of Ireland NERFINISHED
Amoretti NERFINISHED
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe NERFINISHED
Epithalamion NERFINISHED
Prothalamion NERFINISHED
The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED
The Shepheardes Calender NERFINISHED


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