ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser was one of the famous Elizabethan poet and a sonneteer. He was called as a “Poet’s Poet” by Charles Lamb and also known as a Protestant poet. He is mostly famous for his unfinished work “The Faerie queene ”. He wrote 89 sonnets while dedicating to Elizabeth Boyle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edmund Spencer, who lived from 1552 until 1599, was one of the key literary figures of the English Renaissance. A Renaissance is a time in which major changes occur in government, science, technology and the arts, and a culture flourishes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spenser had high poetical endowments. An intense love of beauty love of classical art and its deep humanity, freedom of imagination and thought, sense of wonder-all these were the features of his poetic genius. His earlier poems are no mere classical imitations but reveal genuine poetic merits.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Spenser is sometimes called the “poet’s poet” because so many later English poets have learned the art of versification from him. In the 19th century alone his influence may be seen in Shelley’s Revolt of Islam, Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Keats’s Eve of St. Agnes, and Tennyson’s The Lotos Eaters.