Edmund Spenser is one of the notable poet in Elizabethan Age. He was born in East Smithfield in London to a cloth-maker, John Spenser. Spenserian stanza is a famous verse form which was introduced by this man in his major work The Faerie Queen, this verse form consist of 8 iambic pentameter that followed by a 9th line of 6 iambic feet and the scheme of rhyme is ababbcbcc.
His Works:
1. The Shepheards Calender
2. The Ruins of Time
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4. Mother Habberd's Tale
5. The Ruins of the Muses
6. Amoretti
7. Epithalamion
8. Prothalamion
9. A View of the Present state of Ireland
10. The Faerie Queen
Elizabeth Boyle, an important English family's young woman, Spenser courtship with this woman leads to a married life. His work , a marriage song 'Epithalamion' is a dedicated work to his bride. Amoretti and Epithalamion describes the love during his courtship. But unfortunately he left his final work The Faerie Queen as incomplete, he has planned to write twenty four books under this topic but he completed only six books among that.
Famous Quotes of Spenser:
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
“I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.”
“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”
"And all for love, and nothing for reward."
"What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty."
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