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Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552, though there is some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth. As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he became a friend of Gabriel Harvey and later consulted him, despite their differing views on poetry. In 1578, he became for a short time secretary to John Young, Bishop of Rochester. In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender and around the same time married his first wife, Machabyas Childe. They had two children, Sylvanus (d.1638) and Katherine.
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Genres: Drama, Short,Andrew Hadfield, author of Edmund Spenser: A Life, challenges conventional views of the confrontational writer's life and opinions. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199591022.do
The Faerie Queene -- Book 1 by Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) "The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of Red Crosse or Holinesse". The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remains one of the crowning poetic achievements of the Elizabethan period.
I just got a new microphone and setup for recording audio. I wanted to try it out. Here is me reading Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti." One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I write it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.
LibriVox recording of Amoretti, by Edmund Spenser. Read by Leonard Wilson. The Amoretti (little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those of his contemporaries William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney have been acclaimed. However, because of the artistic skill, along with the emotion and the humor exhibited, these poems deserve a broader hearing, even though they may be somewhat difficult for the present-day reader, partly through Spenser’s love for words and expressions that were already archaic in his time. Amoretti, written throughout the year 1594 and published the following year, violates at least one of t...
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Six classic British books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors' original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers bring their personal insights to these great works. Part 1: The Faerie Queene Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene to reveal how this fantasy world of elves, nymphs and questing knights was written in the midst of the brutal Tudor occupation of Ireland, and how the writer's growing disillusionment with the conflict was coded into the poem's restless verse.
This is a video I put together some time ago on my other channel, www.myoutcaststate.com Readings of poetry and literature will probably be uploaded to that channel rather than this one. Some people might find some of the images disturbing: if you're squeamish, it's probably not a good idea to watch it. I sourced the sound effects from freesound.org
http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201319 Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet - an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi drivers, invented verses of Virgil, found text about Middle-Eastern geopolitics, and the music of extinct butterflies merge into unpredictable collage. Presiding over all is the gender-bending character Lucy, the subject of a failed love affair conducted in convenience stores and equestrian centers. The book ends with a series of poems for a friend who died young, bringing to elegaic focus the poems' q...
The Faerie Queene -- Book 1 by Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) "The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of Red Crosse or Holinesse". The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remains one of the crowning poetic achievements of the Elizabethan period.
"Most of you didn't know that Robert B. Parker was a poet. That's because his poems were written to me," says Joan Parker, Bob's wife, and the real life version of Spenser's long time love, Susan Silverman. Bob sold millions of books, had a PhD in English, and named his legendary detective after the 16th century writer, Edmund Spenser, so his giftedness as a poet isn't a surprise. In this clip, it's Joan's talent and tenderness that's enlightening.
Quotes from TV show Spenser for hire Death and chances, god book says that makes us equal. Euripides: "...whom the gods would destroy they first make mad..." Kierkegaard: "Life can be only understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." Rudyard Kipling: "keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you," Edmund Spenser: "For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make."
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. Origins The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6) It was upon a Sommers shynie day, When Titan faire his beames did display, In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew, She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay; She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew. A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes: The rose is red, the violet's blue, The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou are my love and I am thin...
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those of his contemporaries William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney have been acclaimed. However, because of the artistic skill, along with the emotion and the humor exhibited, these poems deserve a broader hearing, even though they may be somewhat difficult for the present-day reader, partly through Spenser’s love for words and expressions that were already archaic in his time. Amoretti, written throughout the year 1594 and published the following year, violates at least one of the conventional elements of the Renaissance sonnet sequences. Other poe...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B000R90GIU/book Spenser's Irish Experience is the first sustained critical work to argue that Edmund Spenser's perception and fragmented representation of Ireland shadows the whole narrative of his major work, The Faerie Queene. The poem has often been read in specifically English contexts but, as Hadfield argues, demands to be read in terms of England's expanding colonial hegemony within the British Isles and the ensuing fear that such national ambition would actually lead to the destruction of England's post-reformation legacy. Where A View of the Present State of Ireland attempts to provide a violent political solution to England's Irish problem, The Faerie Queene exposes the apocalyptic fear that there may be no solution at all. The...
Borderstream kennel (Hungary). "E" littre. born: 29/07/2016. On the video 48 d.o Edmund Spenser at Borderstream is watching the movie :-)
The SONNET throughout EUROPE. Introduction and poetic recitation. In this video, the French sonneteer Jean-Louis PASTEUR (http://www. http://jeanlouispasteur.org/Letrofee.html) introduces Edmund SPENSER (1552-1599) and recites the 75th sonnet of his AMORETTI (1595) : "ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME UPON THE STRAND..." , dedicated to his wife Elizabeth BOYLE. Edmund Spenser, who lived from 1552 to 1599, is one of the great figures of this golden age that was for literature in England the Elizabethan Renaissance. He was the first poet to tame the sounds of the English language and to reveal its intrinsic music, by adapting to it the prosody inherited from Antiquity and the poetic forms which then flourished in Italy and France, or even by inventing his own new models which his most illustrious su...
Stories from the Faerie Queen | Edmund Spenser, Jeanie Lang | Children's Fiction | Audiobook full unabridged | English Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. A major work by Spenser, The Faerie Queen, was published between 1590 and 1596. As an allegorical work, it can be read on many levels. According to Jeanie Lang, Spenser always looked for the beautiful and the good when he wrote. Lang said, "There are many stories in The Faerie Queen, and out of these all I have told you only eight." The eight are "Una and the Lion," "St. Gergoe and the Dragon," "Britomart and the Magic Mirror," "The Quest of Sir Gregory," "Pastorella," "Cambell and Triamond," "Marinell the Sea-Nymph's Son," and "Flormell a...
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises | Edmund Spenser, Phineas Fletcher | Culture & Heritage, Erotica, Humorous Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narratives | Audiobook full unabridged | English Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid. The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," a short erotic poem with a mythological subject. The style is Spenserian, the stanzas rhyming ababbccc. When Brittain's Ida was published in 1628, the publisher ascribed it to Edmund Spenser....
Faerie Queene (version 2) | Edmund Spenser | Epics | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 2/5 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second twelve were to depict the application of these moral virtues to remedying evils that afflict the world. Each of the first set of quests was to begin at the court of the Fairy Queen, Gloriana, and the knights were to return thither after having defeated some foe representing a personal weakness. Having thus proved themselves, they were qualified to un...
Faerie Queene (version 2) | Edmund Spenser | Epics | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 4/5 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second twelve were to depict the application of these moral virtues to remedying evils that afflict the world. Each of the first set of quests was to begin at the court of the Fairy Queen, Gloriana, and the knights were to return thither after having defeated some foe representing a personal weakness. Having thus proved themselves, they were qualified to un...
Stories from the Faerie Queen Edmund SPENSER Audiobook Stories from the Faerie Queen Edmund SPENSER (1552 - 1599) and Jeanie LANG ( - ) A major work by Spenser, The Faerie Queen, was published between 1590 and 1596. As an allegorical work, it can be read on many levels. According to Jeanie Lang, Spenser always looked for the beautiful and the good when he wrote. Lang said, "There are many stories in The Faerie Queen, and out of these all I have told you only eight." The eight are "Una and the Lion," "St. Gergoe and the Dragon," "Britomart and the Magic Mirror," "The Quest of Sir Gregory," "Pastorella," "Cambell and Triamond," "Marinell the Sea-Nymph's Son," and "Flormell and the Witch." - Summary by Bill Boerst Genre(s): Children's Fiction Language: English CHAPTER Chapter 1 - Una and...
Full Audiobook Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmq0YU93ZZA&list;=PLP8Dqf4VLQxH3U7lJMfLq3Rdtl4HncHtI on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1hVMIx4 The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser - part 1
Edmund SPENSER (1552 - 1599) and Jeanie LANG