FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 27 October 1579 Spenser married Maccabaeus Childe at St Margaret’s, Westminster. They had two children, Sylvanus and Katherine-Richard Mulcaster, Spenser’s former headmaster, had a child named Sylvanus.
Detailed explanation-2: -His first wife, Machabyas Childe, is something of an enigma. She married Edmund Spenser on 27 October 1579 in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster-a grand venue, which later witnessed the weddings of Samuel Pepys, Sir Winston Churchill, and Harold Macmillan.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1594, Spenser’s first wife had died, and in that year he married a much younger Elizabeth Boyle, a relative of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. He addressed to her the sonnet sequence Amoretti. The marriage itself was celebrated in Epithalamion.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-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.