"the sonnet from Italy into England in the early 16th century. Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan period, author of ""The Faerie Queene"" (1590 and 1596), an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Another major figure, Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), was an English poet, whose works include ""Astrophel and Stella"", ""The Defence of Poetry"", and ""The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia"". Poems intended to be set to music as songs, such as those by Thomas Campion (1567–1620), became popular as printed literature was disseminated more widely in"
"that warr, there perished not manye by the sworde, but all by the extreamytie of famine ... they themselves had wrought'"" 1590: 1591: 1592: 1595: 1596: Posthumous: |- style=""text-align:center;"" Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year"
"Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552, though there is still some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a"
"closing couplet. In the later 16th century, English poetry was characterised by elaboration of language and extensive allusion to classical myths. The most important poets of this era include Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney. Elizabeth herself, a product of Renaissance humanism, produced occasional poems such as ""On Monsieur’s Departure"" and ""The Doubt of Future Foes"". Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–99) was one of the most important poets of this period, author of ""The Faerie Queene"" (1590 and 1596), an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Another major figure, Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86), was an"
"The first three books of ""The Faerie Queene"" were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were published in 1596. Spenser originally indicated that he intended the poem to consist of twelve books, so the version of the poem we have today is incomplete. Despite this, it remains one of the longest poems in the English language. It is an allegorical work, and can be read (as Spenser presumably intended) on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen Elizabeth I. In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several"
"has educated the comedy writers Douglas Adams, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson, the popular novelists A. S. Byatt, Sir Salman Rushdie, Nick Hornby, Zadie Smith, Robert Harris and Sebastian Faulks, the successful action writers Michael Crichton, David Gibbins and Jin Yong, and contemporary playwrights and screenwriters such as Julian Fellowes, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Frayn and Sir Peter Shaffer. Cambridge poets include Edmund Spenser, author of ""The Faerie Queene"", the Metaphysical poets John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell, John Milton, renowned for his late epic ""Paradise Lost"", the leading Restoration poet and playwright John Dryden, the pre-romantic Thomas Gray, best"
"his pupils at Oxford was Jonathan Toup. Upton published: John Upton (Spenser editor) John Upton (1707–1760) was an English clergyman, academic and critic. An important early editor of Edmund Spenser, he is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic ""The Faerie Queene"", which was first published in 1590 (books 1-3) and 1596 (books 4-6). Upton was educated at Oxford University, where he was for a while a college fellow. The notes in his edition of ""The Faerie Queene"" attempted to link the poem to events in Spenser's life, and characters in the poem"
"a very close personal friend and one time suitor to the Queen. It is evident that Elizabeth herself, though a committed Anglican, relied heavily on Puritan leaders for the support of the crown as well as her own personal and state counsel. The chief poet of the Elizabethan era, Edmund Spenser, was himself a promoter of Puritan views. He is best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the reign of Elizabeth I. In fact the Red Cross Knight, the chief hero of the poem is designed to be the very image and model of"
"The Princess (Tennyson poem) The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1892 and remains one of the most popular English poets. The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's"
"Abraham Cowley Abraham Cowley (; 161828 July 1667) was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his ""Works"" published between 1668 and 1721. His father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of ""The Faerie Queene"". This became the favourite reading of her son, and he had read it twice before he was sent"
"published in 1516. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. In the later 16th century, English poetry was characterised by elaboration of language and extensive allusion to classical myths. Sir Edmund Spenser (1555–99) was the author of ""The Faerie Queene"", an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. The works of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) a poet, courtier and soldier, include ""Astrophel and Stella"", ""The Defence of Poetry"", and ""Arcadia"". Poems intended to be set to music as songs, such"
"allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser's ""Letter of the Authors"", he states that the entire epic poem is ""cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devises"", and the aim of publishing ""The Faerie Queene"" was to ""fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"". ""The Faerie Queene"" found such favour with Elizabeth I that Spenser was granted a pension for life amounting to £50 a year, though there is no further evidence that Elizabeth I ever read any of the poem. This royal patronage elevated the poem to a level of success that"
"Belphoebe Belphoebe (or ""Belphebe"", ""Belphœbe"") is a character in Edmund Spenser's poem ""The Faerie Queene"" (1590), a representation of Queen Elizabeth I (conceived of, however, as a pure, high-spirited maiden, rather than a queen). Spenser intended her name to mean ""beautiful Diana"" (Phoebe being an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, who was known to the Romans as Diana), and it is suggested that she is a member of Poseidon's family. A virgin huntress, Belphoebe can certainly fight, as a potential rapist found out. She is the stronger, militant sister of Amoret. Belphoebe is mentioned in Kipling's poem ""The"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"of the paladins of Charlemagne, and particularly, of Roland, translated as ""Orlando""). The incidents and plot devices of the Italian epics later became central to works of English literature such as Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene""; Spenser attempted to adapt the form devised to tell the tale of the triumph of Christianity over Islam to tell instead of the triumph of Protestantism over Roman Catholicism. The Welsh poet, painter, soldier and engraver David Jones's Modernist poem In Parenthesis was described by contemporary critic Herbert Read as having ""the heroic ring which we associate with the old chansons de geste"". Chanson"
"Protestant Queen Elizabeth, Spenser was particularly offended by the anti-Elizabethan propaganda that some Catholics circulated. Like most Protestants near the time of the Reformation, Spenser saw a Catholic church full of corruption, and he determined that it was not only the wrong religion but the anti-religion. This sentiment is an important backdrop for the battles of The Faerie Queene. Spenser was called ""the Poet's Poet"" by Charles Lamb, and was admired by John Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Alfred Tennyson and others. Among his contemporaries Walter Raleigh wrote a commendatory poem to ""The Faerie Queene"" in"
"The Palace of Pleasure The Palace of Pleasure is a poem by James Henry Leigh Hunt published in his 1801 collection ""Juvenilia"". Written before he was even sixteen, the work was part of a long tradition of poets imitating Spenser. ""The Palace of Pleasure"" is an allegory based on Book II of Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"" and describes the adventure of Sir Guyon as he is taken by airy sylphs to the palace of the ""Fairy Pleasure"". According to Hunt the poem ""endeavours to correct the vices of the age, by showing the frightful landscape that terminates the alluring"
"Spenserian stanza The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem ""The Faerie Queene"" (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC. This example is the first stanza from Spenser's ""Faerie Queene"". The formatting, wherein all lines but the first and last are indented, is the same as in contemporary printed editions. <poem> Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song."
"The Fairy-Queen The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a ""Restoration spectacular"". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". First performed in 1692, ""The Fairy-Queen"" was composed three years before Purcell's death at the age of 35. Following his death, the score was lost and only rediscovered early in the twentieth century. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The play itself was also slightly modernised in keeping"
"John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown."
"centuries that was heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance. This movement is characterised by the flowering of English music (particularly the English adoption and development of the madrigal), notable achievements in drama (by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson), and the development of English epic poetry (most famously Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene""). The idea of the Renaissance has come under increased criticism by many cultural historians, and some have contended that the ""English Renaissance"" has no real tie with the artistic achievements and aims of the northern Italian artists (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello) who are closely identified with the"
"him as ""most excellent among the rest"" of our poets in his ""Discourse of English Poetry"". In 1588 Anthony Munday dedicated to de Vere the two parts of his ""Palmerin d'Oliva"". The following year ""The Arte of English Poesie"", attributed to George Puttenham, placed de Vere among a ""crew"" of courtier poets; he also considered de Vere among the best comic playwrights of the day. In 1590 Edmund Spenser addressed to de Vere the third of seventeen dedicatory sonnets which preface ""The Faerie Queene"", celebrating his patronage of poets. The composer John Farmer, who was in de Vere's service at"
"Queen's Men"", which is based on Spenser's work and which constitutes a lament for two young sea-captains who perished on a mission to which she sent them: Belphoebe Belphoebe (or ""Belphebe"", ""Belphœbe"") is a character in Edmund Spenser's poem ""The Faerie Queene"" (1590), a representation of Queen Elizabeth I (conceived of, however, as a pure, high-spirited maiden, rather than a queen). Spenser intended her name to mean ""beautiful Diana"" (Phoebe being an epithet of the Greek moon goddess Artemis, who was known to the Romans as Diana), and it is suggested that she is a member of Poseidon's family. A"
"John Upton (Spenser editor) John Upton (1707–1760) was an English clergyman, academic and critic. An important early editor of Edmund Spenser, he is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic ""The Faerie Queene"", which was first published in 1590 (books 1-3) and 1596 (books 4-6). Upton was educated at Oxford University, where he was for a while a college fellow. The notes in his edition of ""The Faerie Queene"" attempted to link the poem to events in Spenser's life, and characters in the poem with historical figures. Born at Taunton, he was the"
"written much of the work at the time of his death, and the ""Canterbury Tales"" are considered to be a seminal work despite the unfinished status. English poet Edmund Spenser originally intended ""The Faerie Queene"" to consist of 12 books; even at its unfinished state—six books were published before Spenser's death—it is the longest epic poem in the English language. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence ""La Comédie humaine"", but a planned 48 more were never finished. Notes and plot outlines left behind by an author may allow a successor to complete"
"of the time, particularly upon the work of Molière. Shakespeare drew upon the arts of jesters and strolling players in creating new style comedies. All the parts, even the female ones, were played by men (""en travesti"") but that would change, first in France and then in England too, by the end of the 17th century. The epic Elizabethan poem ""The Faerie Queene"" by Edmund Spenser was published, in its first part, in 1590 and then in completed form in 1597. ""The Fairie Queen"" marks the transitional period in which ""novelty"" begins to enter into the narrative in the sense"
"reality to interpreted events becomes more apparent when the events occurred nearer to the time when the poem was written. Throughout ""The Faerie Queene"", Spenser creates ""a network of allusions to events, issues, and particular persons in England and Ireland"" including Mary, Queen of Scots, the Spanish Armada, the English Reformation, and even the Queen herself. It is also known that James VI of Scotland read the poem, and was very insulted by Duessa – a very negative depiction of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. ""The Faerie Queene"" was then banned in Scotland. This led to a significant decrease"
"was Principal Investigator of 'The Faerie Queene Now: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today's World' and leader of 'The Faerie Queene Liturgy Project', the major outcome of which was the ""Redcrosse"" liturgy for contemporary England. This was performed in major cathedrals, attracted a BNP protest, and was published by Bloomsbury, before being adopted by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The project was initially funded by AHRC/ESRC and was further supported by Arts Council, LCACE, Awards for All, the PRS Foundation for Music and the Church Urban Fund. Fernie has also written poetry for the acclaimed Ex Cathedra choir's Candlelight concerts in Birmingham,"
"The poem celebrates, memorializes, and critiques the House of Tudor (of which Elizabeth was a part), much as Virgil's ""Aeneid"" celebrates Augustus' Rome. The ""Aeneid"" states that Augustus descended from the noble sons of Troy; similarly, ""The Faerie Queene"" suggests that the Tudor lineage can be connected to King Arthur. The poem is deeply allegorical and allusive; many prominent Elizabethans could have found themselves partially represented by one or more of Spenser's figures. Elizabeth herself is the most prominent example. She appears in the guise of Gloriana, the Faerie Queen, but also in Books III and IV as the virgin"
"of scholarly books, she was an expert on Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats. The contemporary composer David Matthews has written a song-cycle, ""The Golden Kingdom"", on some of Raine's poems. Raine received honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, France and the United States and won numerous awards and honors, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society (date unknown), and also: ""No End to Snowdrops"", Philippa Bernard. Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd, 2009, Kathleen Raine Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on"
"famous pastoral epic called ""The Faerie Queene"", in which he employs the pastoral mode to accentuate the charm, lushness, and splendor of the poem's (super)natural world. Spenser alludes to the pastoral continuously throughout the work and also uses it to create allegory in his poem, with the characters as well as with the environment, both of which are meant to have symbolic meaning in the real world. It is composed of six books but Spenser intended to write twelve. He wrote the poem primarily to honor Queen Elizabeth. William Cowper addressed the artificiality of the fast-paced city life in his"
"corresponding to the days in a year. The ode's content progresses from the enthusiasm of youth to the concerns of middle age by beginning with high hopes for a joyful day and ending with an eye toward the speaker's legacy to future generations. Edmund Spenser was an English poet from Ireland known for works such as The Faerie Queene, The Shepheardes Calender, ""Epithalamion"" and ""Amoretti"". ""Epithalamion"" goes in hand with Amoretti. The two work together to explore the development of the romantic relationship between Spenser and his bride Elizabeth Boyle. Spenser was a writer in the Elizabethan Era, and a"
"Spenser's collected sonnets, ""Amoretti and Epithalamion"" (1595), the one numbered 33 is addressed to Bryskett. Spenser here apologises to his friend for his delay in completing the ""Faerie Queene"". Lodowick Bryskett Lodowick Bryskett (1547–1612 ca., fl. 1571–1611), poet, translator, and Irish official. He is stated to have been the son of ‘a natural Italian', but of his early life nothing definite is known. He was generally believed to have relations in Florence, where he certainly had many correspondents. He matriculated as a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, 27 April 1559, but left the university without proceeding to a degree. On"