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Edmund Spenser

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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?


— Edmund Spenser


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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.


— Edmund Spenser


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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.


— Edmund Spenser


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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.


— Edmund Spenser


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And all for love, and nothing for reward.


— Edmund Spenser


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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.


— Edmund Spenser


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Although it has been highly regarded as a polemical piece of prose and valued as a historical source on 16th century Ireland the View is seen today as genocidal in intent. Influences and influenced
Though Spenser was well read in classical literature scholars have noted that his poetry does not rehash tradition but rather is distinctly his. His castle at Kilcolman was burned and Ben Jonson (who may have had private information) asserted that one of his infant children died in the blaze.

Edmund Spenser (c. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy and is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

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