In 1552 Edmund Spenser Was Born In The City Of London. As The Son Of A Poor Clot

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Term Paper Title	In 1552 Edmund Spenser Was Born In The City Of London. As The Son Of A Poor Clot
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     In 1552 Edmund Spenser was born in the city of London. As the son of a poor cloth maker Spenser found himself working his way through Cambridge by serving as a waiter. Spenser received his Bachelors degree in 1573, followed by his Master’s in 1576. Soon after, Spenser served as a secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. Within the next year, Philip Sydney, Edward Dyer, and Fulke Greville joined with Spenser to form what Spenser called the “Areopagus.”  “The Areopagus was a literary group formed to support the causes of the Leicester faction in matters of religion and politics”(Freeman 50).
     Soon after he left college, Spenser published “The Shepherd’s Calendar.” It was a long poem about the then popular shepherds and shepherdesses. “The Shepheardes Calender appeared at the end of the year, in time to serve as, among other things, propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queen’s proposed marriage with the Duc d’Alencon”(http://www.meltingpot.fortunecity.com). The poem brought him immediate success. Spenser hoped for a court appointment, but none came.
     For the next ten years Spenser spent his life in Ireland. During this time Spenser wrote his most popular poem, The Faerie Queene. While in Ireland Spenser became friends with a nearby neighbor named Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh assisted Spenser in trying to persuade the Queen of England to give Spenser a job in her court. The book became very popular with the reading public, but was shot down by the Queen in similar fashion as The Shepheardes Calender.
     After his disappointments with the Queen, Spenser returned once more to Ireland. About this time the Daphnaida and the Complaints surfaced. Spenser then met a young lady by the name of Elizabeth Boyle. They would soon marry and give birth to four children. Spenser continued to produce a number of poems, including the Amoretti and Epithalamion, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, Fowre Hymnes, and Prothalamion. Unfortunately, during an insurrection of nati...

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