What is Edmund Spenser?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Edmund Spenser | image = Edmund Spenser oil painting.JPG | birth_date = c. 1553 | birth_place = [[London]], England | death_date = {{Death date|1599|01|13|df=yes}}<ref name=NA>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P37670 National Archive documents]</ref> | death_place = [[London]], England | resting_place = [[Westminster Abbey]] | occupation = [[Poet]] | language = [[English language|English]] | alma_mater = [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] | period = 1569–1599 | notableworks = ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' | signature = Edmund Spenser Signature.svg }} [[File:EdmundSpenser.jpg|thumb|Edmund Spenser]] '''Edmund Spenser''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|p|ɛ|n|s|ə}}; c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was a [[poet]] from [[England]]. He was most known for his poem ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', which talks about different [[knight]]s who fight against evil. The poem also praises Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]]. He wrote also many sonnets and poems. The sonnets were collected under the name of Amoretti.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Spenser Edmund Spenser at Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> Edmund Spenser made a new rhyme-scheme for [[sonnet]] (abab bcbc cdcd ee) and a nine-line stanza (ababbcbcc).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/art/Spenserian-stanza Spenserian stanza at Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> These forms are now called [[Spenserian sonnet]] and [[Spenserian stanza]]. Spenserian stanza was later used by many poets, among others by [[Lord Byron|George Gordon Byron]], [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], [[John Keats]] and [[Alfred Tennyson]]. ==Sources== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Spenser, Edmund}} [[Category:1552 births]] [[Category:1599 deaths]] [[Category:People buried in Westminster Abbey]] [[Category:English poets]] [[Category:British poets laureate]]