THE “ Faëry Queen” of Edmund Spenser is before us,—a vast and glittering mausoleum, in which the purpose of the constructor has long been entombed, we fear without hope of a happy resurrection.

Literary biographers almost invariably conclude that their subject is unjustly neglected and deserves to be more widely read. Few writers have a reputation as uninspiring as(1554?-99), a poet who ...

A fearsome closeup of the dragon facing down the Redcrosse knight makes full use of Spenser's nine-line stanza form This week we're looking at stanzas X-XV from Canto XI, Book One, of Edmund Spenser's ...

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) can be rightfully considered England’s finest poet of the sixteenth century. (Shakespeare and Donne, his rivals for such a credit, lived and wrote into the seventeenth ...

Queen ELIZABETH I made him England’s poet laureate. But the complete works of Edmund Spenser -- whose epic poem, “The Faerie Queene,” so dazzled the monarch -- are hard to find these days. Now, thanks ...

COUNTLESS Eng Lit undergraduates have blanched before the prospect of tackling the Elizabethan Edmund Spenser’s poetry. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

There is a rather deadly kind of literary fame which TS Eliot neatly defined as a "conspiracy of approval". It condemns a writer "to be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches ...

The last biography of Edmund Spenser (1554–1599), author of The Faerie \tQueene, was issued in 1945. It is probable that no one will have to write another after this one from Hadfield (Shakespeare and ...

Neither history nor biography has been kind to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser (1554-1599). Following his sudden death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey next to Chaucer, but the inscription on ...