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MessaggioInviato: Mer Ago 11, 19:22:39    Oggetto:  Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser

Born: 1552, probably London, Englsnd.
Died: January 13, 1599, London, England.

As a boy, Spenser was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In the 1570's Spenser went to Ireland, probably in the service of the newly appointed lord deputy, Arthur Grey. From 1579 to 1580, he served with the English forces during the Second Desmond Rebellion.
After the defeat of the rebels he was awarded lands in County Cork that had been confiscated in the Munster Plantation during the Elizabethan reconquest of Ireland. Among his acquaintances in the area was Walter Raleigh, a fellow colonist. Spenser was a controversial figure due to his zeal for the destruction of the Irish culture yet was one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy.
The first poem to earn Spenser notability was a collection of eclogues called The Shepheardes Calendar, written from the point of view of various shepherds throughout the months of the year. The poem is an allegory symbolizing the state of humanity. The diversity of forms and meters, ranging from accentual-syllabic to purely accentual, and including such departures as the sestina in August, gave Spenser's contemporaries a clue to the range of his powers and won him praise in his day.
An English poet and Poet Laureate, Spenser was preceded by John Skelton and succeeded by Samuel Daniel.
Through his poetry Spenser hoped to secure a place at court, which he visited in Raleigh's company to deliver his most famous work, The Faerie Queene. However, he boldly antagonized the queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, and all he received in recognition of his work was a pension in 1591. When it was proposed that he receive payment of 100 pounds for his epic poem, Burghley remarked, "What, all this for a song!"
Spenser is best known for The Faerie Queene, and is his major contribution to English poetry. The poem is a long, dense allegory, in the epic form, celebrating Christian virtues, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I, tied into England's Arthurian legends. Spenser projected twelve books of the poem, but left only six complete books and some stanzas from a seventh before his death. The work remains the longest epic poem in the English language, and has inspired writers from John Milton and John Keats to James Joyce and Ezra Pound.
Spenser devised a verse form for The Faerie Queene, derived from Rime Royal, which has come to be known as the "Spenserian stanza," since applied in poetry by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, among others. The language of his poetry is purposely archaic. It reminds readers of earlier works such as The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, whom Spenser greatly admired. Spenser's Epithalamion is the most admired of its type in the English language. It was written for his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle.
Blatant Beast was a phrase Spenser coined for the ignorant, slanderous, clamour of the mob. However, the Blatant Beast from The Faerie Queene is clearly shown to indicate slander in general, and a large part of the final complete book (Book VI, although the Blatant Beast first appears towards the end of Book V) shows how thoroughly the Blatant Beast ravages the world, first spreading from the Court (not the villages or slums) and causing havoc everywhere it goes until it even penetrates into the monasteries and causes great distress there. Only Calidore, the most courteous of knights, was able to tame, chain, and imprison the Blatant Beast, which eventually would break free and, as The Faerie Queene concludes by saying, still ravages the world today since only two Arthurian knights ever even came close to doing what Calidore did and even The Faerie Queene, the text asserts, shall become a target for the Blatant Beast.
In the early 1590's Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled, A View of the Present State of Ireland. This piece remained in manuscript form until its publication in print in the mid-seventeenth century. It is probable that it was kept out of print during the author's lifetime because of its inflammatory content. The pamphlet argued that Ireland would never be totally 'pacified' by the English until its indigenous language and customs had been destroyed, if necessary by violence. Spenser recommended scorched earth tactics, such as he had seen used in the Desmond Rebellions, to
create famine.
The paradox proposed by Spenser was that only by methods that overrode the rule of law could the conditions be created for the true establishment of the rule of law. Although it has been highly regarded as a polemical piece of prose and valued as a historical source on 16th century Ireland, the View is seen today as genocidal in intent.
Spenser did express some praise for the Gaelic poetic tradition, but also used much tendentious and bogus analysis to demonstrate that the Irish were descended from barbarian Scythian stock.
Spenser was driven from his home by Irish rebels during the Nine Years War in 1598. His castle at Kilcolman was burned, and it is thought one of his infant children died in the blaze. In the following year Spenser traveled to London, where he died in distressed circumstances, aged forty-six. It was arranged for his coffin to be carried by other poets, upon which they threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave with many tears.
Houses at two well-known English Public Schools are named after Spenser - Merchant Taylors' School, which he attended, and Dulwich College.

Works:
The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596, 1609)
Complaints Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie (1591)
The Ruines of Time
The Teares of the Muses
Virgil's Gnat
Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale
Ruines of Rome by Bellay
Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie
Visions of the worlds vanitie
The Visions of Bellay
The Visions of Petrarch
Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of Henry Lord
Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (1594)
Colin Clouts Come home againe (1595)
Astrophel A Pastoral Elegie upon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney (1595)
Amoretti (1595)
Epithalamion (1595)
Four Hymns (1596)
Prothalamion (1596)
A View of the Present State of Ireland (ca. 1598)
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