FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Sir Edmund Spenser
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser is considered one of the preeminent poets of the English language. He was born into the family of an obscure cloth maker named John Spenser, who belonged to the Merchant Taylors’ Company and was married to a woman named Elizabeth, about whom almost nothing is known.
Detailed explanation-2: -’The Father of English Poetry’ (Chapter 8)-Geoffrey Chaucer.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Spenser was the second father of English Poetry. He was the prince of poets of his times. Charles Lamb called him ‘Poetis poet’.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.