Spenser, Edmund

Spenser, Edmund (1552 - 1599)

Index to poems
  1. Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
  2. Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
  3. Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
  4. Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
  5. Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
  6. Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
  7. Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season
  8. An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
  9. An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
  10. Epithalamion
  11. Iambicum Trimetrum
  12. Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
  13. Prothalamion
  14. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 1 (1596)
  15. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 10
  16. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 11
  17. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 2
  18. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 2 (1596)
  19. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 3 (1596)
  20. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 4
  21. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 4 (1596)
  22. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9
  23. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 10 (1596)
  24. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 11 (1596)
  25. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 12 (1596)
  26. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5 (1596)
  27. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 6 (1596)
  28. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 7 (1596)
  29. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 8 (1596)
  30. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 9 (1596)
  31. The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto 12
  32. The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto 6
  33. The Faerie Queene, Book VI, Canto 10
  34. The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I
  35. The Shepheardes Calender: April
  36. The Shepheardes Calender: October
Biography

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 Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt (London: Oxford University Press, 1912).

  • Hadfield, Andrew. "Spenser, Edmund (1552?–1599)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.
Given Name
Edmund
Family Name
Spenser
Pseudonym(s)
Immerito
Birth Date
0, 1552
Death Date
January 16, 1599
Nationality
English
Family Relations
father : John Spenser
mother : Elizabeth Spenser
sister : Sarah Travers
wife : Elizabeth Spenser (from 11 Jun. 1594)
son : Sylvanus Spenser
son : Lawrence Spenser
son : Peregrine Spenser
daughter : Catherine Wiseman
Education
Religion
Honours
Occupations
  • Clerk



  • Sheriff



Literary Period
Elizabethan
Literary Movement
Unknown
Illness
Buried At
Westminster Abbey
First RPO Edition
1996-2000