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Title: Edmund Spenser


1
Edmund Spenser
  • Rebecca Nevetral
  • And
  • Stephanie Turski

2
Biography
  • Born in 1552
  • Educated in London and went to the University at
    Cambridge
  • Went to service in Ireland and hoped to gain a
    place in court
  • Became the secretary to the Lord Deputy of
    Ireland
  • Was great friends with Sir Philip Sidney and
    their works were printed together in 1595
  • Died in 1599

3
Poetic Career
  • Concerned the most with moral criticism, natural
    beauty, and experience of style and language in
    classical meters
  • A pastoral poet
  • Thought to be influenced by Barnabe Googe
  • First original work was The Sheapheards Calendar
    in 1579 which began the English literary Golden
    Age

4
The Faerie Queene
  • Spensers major work started in 1590
  • First poem ever written in Spenserian verse
  • Allegorical work dedicated to Elizabeth I, the
    Queen of England
  • Each book focused on one virtue
  • Holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship,
    justice, and courtesy

5
The Spenserian Stanza
  • Main meter is iambic pentameter
  • A b a b b c b c c rhyme scheme
  • Final line hexameter with 6 feet of poetry

6
Spenserian Sonnet
  • Has Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet
    influences
  • Shakespearean sonnet - set up based more on the 3
    quatrain and a couplet system
  • Petrarchan tradition- the conclusion follows from
    the argument or issue set up in the earlier
    quatrains
  • Often idealizes or praises a mistress by focusing
    on body parts
  • Almost like an objective or scientific view of a
    lover
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