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Edmund Spenser - Smithfield

Smithfield EC1, England

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Born c 1552 was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queen, an epic poem written in 1590 and the second in 1596.

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1569: Jan van der Noodt's A Theatre for Worldlings, including poems translated into English by Spenser from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in London

1579: The Shepheardes Calender, published under the pseudonym "Immerito" (entered into the Stationers' Register in December)

1590: The Faerie Queene, Books 1–3

1591:

Complaints, Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie (entered into the Stationer's Register in 1590), includes:

"The Ruines of Time"

"The Teares of the Muses"

"Virgil's Gnat"

"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"

"Ruines of Rome: by Bellay"

"Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"

"Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"

"The Visions of Bellay"

"The Visions of Petrarch"

1592:

Axiochus, a translation of a pseudo-Platonic dialogue from the original Ancient Greek; published by Cuthbert Burbie; attributed to "Edw: Spenser" but the attribution is uncertain

Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of

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