Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Born in London, Spenser was the son of a Lancashire clothmaker. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, which was then a grammar school, and in 1568 he began his studies at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. In 1580 he became secretary to Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy in Ireland and at Kilcolman Castle completed the first three books of The Faerie Queene. In 1598 the castle was burned down by rebels, and Spenser and his family narrowly escaped. His attitude towards the Irish problem, expressed in both book five of the Faerie Queene and his View of the Present State of Ireland was that merciless oppression was the only solution. He died in London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Websites
- Edmund Spenser World BibliographyIndexes bibliographies, abstracts, and reviews printed in Spenser Newsletter and Spenser Review.
- Hap HazardA Manuscript Resource for Spenser Studies
This digital collection was compiled by the faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. Here you will find transcriptions of all of the known diplomatic and other papers relating to Spenser's life in Ireland between 1580 and 1599. This site also features a digitized edition of Spenser's "AVewe of the Present State of Irelande."
Spenser's Works
A view of the state of Ireland : from the first printed edition (1633) by Call Number: DA937 .S64 1997ISBN: 9780631205340Publication Date: 1997
Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book I by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781785433139Publication Date: 2017-01-13
Amoretti and epithalamion : the complete works of Edmund Spenser by Call Number: eBook
Books About Spenser
- Studies in Spenser, Milton, and the theory of monarchy by Call Number: PN511 .M43 1962
Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781501517938Publication Date: 2019-09-23
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