“The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or…” — Edmund Spenser

“The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline.”

Defining poetry as a means of moral and personal education · Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, prefatory to The Faerie Queene

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Edmund Spenser

About Edmund Spenser

c. 1552–13 January 1599

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…

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