RPO -- Selected Poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Selected Poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Poure out the wine without restraint or stay,
Poure not by cups, but by the belly full,
Poure out to all that wull,
And sprinkle all the postes and wals with wine,
That they may sweat, and drunken be withall.
(Epithalamion, 250-254)

Notes on Life and Works

A standard edition is The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition, ed. Edwin Greenlaw, et al. (9 vols.; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932-49). A good single-volume edition, without notes, is The PoeticaI Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt (London: Oxford University Press, 1912).

Biographical information

Given name: Edmund
Family name: Spenser
Birth date: 1552
Death date: 16 January 1599
Pseudonym: Immerito
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Spenser
mother: Elizabeth Spenser
wife: Elizabeth Spenser (from 11 June 1594)
sister: Sarah Travers
son: Lawrence Spenser
son: Peregrine Spenser
son: Sylvanus Spenser
daughter: Catherine Wiseman
Languages
English
French
Italian
Latin
Greek
Education
Merchant Taylors' school: 1561
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (M.A.): 20 May 1569 to 1576
Patron: Earl of Leicester
Literary period: Renaissance
Occupations
Clerk
Sheriff
Residences
Hurstwood
London
London: 1552
Leicester House, the Strand: 1578
New Abbey, co. Kildare: 1582
Kilcolman Castle: 1588
Buried at: Westminster Abbey
First RPO edition: 1996-2000