Edmund Spenser, born about 1552 and dead on 13 January 1599, was the most ambitious English poet of the later Elizabethan age and one of the chief architects of the English literary canon. His achievement rests above all on The Faerie Queene, the vast unfinished romance-epic through which he attempted to give Protestant England a national mythology, a moral education, and a poetic language equal to those of classical…
“The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline.”
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Elizabethan Poets, Irish Poets, Nature Poets, Political Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Tenderness
In the twilight of the Elizabethan age, when England's cultural flowering reached its zenith, a remarkable composer emerged whose keyboard works would outlive the very dynasty that witnessed his birth. Giles Farnaby, born around 1563 and departing this world in 1640, stands as one of the most distinctive voices of the English Renaissance, a master whose miniature musical portraits captured both the exuberance and mel…
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Elizabethan Poets, Lute-Song Composers
Emotional landscape: Irony, Joy, Sorrow
