Edmund Spenser facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Edmund Spenser
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| Born | c. 1553 London, England |
| Died | 13 January 1599 London, England |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1569–1599 |
| Notable works | The Faerie Queene |
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Edmund Spenser ( c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an important poet from England. He is most famous for his epic poem The Faerie Queene, which talks about different knights who fight against evil. The poem also praises Queen Elizabeth I of England. He wrote also many sonnets and poems. The sonnets were collected under the name of Amoretti.
Edmund Spenser invented a new rhyme-scheme for sonnet (abab bcbc cdcd ee) and a nine-line stanza (ababbcbcc). These forms are today called Spenserian sonnet and Spenserian stanza. Spenserian stanza was later used by many poets, among others by George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Alfred Tennyson.
Images for kids
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Title page, Fowre Hymnes, by Edmund Spenser, published by William Ponsonby, London, 1596
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Title Page of a 1617 Edition of The Shepheardes Calender printed by Matthew Lownes, often bound with the complete works printed in 1611 or 1617.
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The epic poem The Faerie Queene frontispiece, printed by William Ponsonby in 1590.
