ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -In these cycles of sonnets, Spenser chronicles the progress of his love for his beloved, Elizabeth Boyle and then records his marriage to her.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England-died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.