Spenser

Edmund, the well-known English poet, was born about 1553 was admitted as a sizar to Pembroke Flail, Cambridge,; in 1569 graduated as B.A. in 1573, and as M.A. in 1576.; It is thought that he then went to live in the north of England, and celebrated a lady, whom he wooed unsucce fully, as Rosalind in his poem the “ Shepherd's Calendar," published in 1579. In 1580 he became Secretary to the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, who, in conjunction with the Earl of Leicester and Sir Philip Sidney, obtained for him a grant of land in Cork. In 1589 Sir Walter Raleigh visited him while he was engaged in writing the “ Faerie Queen®. In 1590, having accompanied Raleigh to England, he published his first three books, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth. In 1594 he married, and he celebrated his courtship in 88 sonnets, and his marriage in the “ Epithalamium.” In 1595 he published “Colin Clout’s Come Flome Again " " Astrophel,” “The Morning Muse of Thestylis,”'his f sonnets and the “ Epithalamium," with three more books of the “ Faerie Queene," his “ Prothalamium " on the marriages of the Ladies Elizabeth and Catharine Somerset, and "Four Hymns in Honour of Love, of Beauty, of Heavenly Love, and of Heavenly Beauty.” In 1598 he became Sheriff of the County of Cork, but his house being burnt, and his infant child in it, during the Tyrone Rebellion, he came to England, and died in 1599. He also wrote a " View of the State of Ireland