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Edmund Spencer
Biography:
Edmund Spencer was born in London in 1552.
He was educated at Cambridge, where he read Ho-
mer, Virgil, Tasso and Ariosto – who were to influ-
ence his major works.
In 1580 he moved to Ireland as secretary to the
new lord deputy of the island. However he always
regarded Ireland as a place of exile.
In 1590 he went to London for the publication
of The faerie Queene his major work, an allegori-
cal poem modelled on the classics and the epic
romances of Ariosto and Tasso.
In 1594 he married Elizabeh Boyle, whose love
He had celebrated in a collection of Petrarchan love
Sonnets,Amoretti.
He went back to London where he died in poverty in 1599 and was buried in Westminster.
For The faeria Queene Spencer invented a new stanza, called Spencerian stanza which consists of eight five-foot iambic lines, followed by an iambic line of six feet, rhyming ababbcbcc.
