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 ”.

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 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-4: -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-5: -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.