FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Worcester
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Chester
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East Smithfield
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Kent
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552; however, there is still some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. His parenthood is obscure, but he was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman clothmaker.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the modest pseudonym of ‘Immerito, ’ the author dedicated in a short poem this series of twelve dialogues or eclogues to his friend Sir Philip Sidney. No mention was anywhere made of Spenser’s name.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -In summary, Spenser tells us that he wrote his beloved’s name on the beach one day, but the waves came in and washed the name away.