Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night the usual large audience heard Mr. E. Charlton Black's lecture on "Spenser and Drummond of Haw hornden." Mr. Black first spoke of the events which preceded and prepared the way for Spenser's writings...
...December, 1579, there appeared a quarto volume of poetry entitled "The Shepherd's Calendar" and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. Edmond Spenser was twenty-seven years old and this was his first work. It was enthusiastically received and from that time dates the popularity of pastorals in England...
...Spenser was not born of a rich family, but in 1569 he went to Cambridge University, where he spent seven years. After that he lived in nothern England, where he fell in love with one Rosalind. His suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle...
...Spenser's great work. of course, is the "Fairy Queen" which remained unfinished at his death. In it he tries to represent in an allegory a perfect gentleman in search of glory...
...Lecture. Spenser and Drummond of Hawthornden. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...