Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) was an English poet, and a contemporary of William Shakespeare.

The Faerie Queene is his major contribution to English poetry. It is mostly a poem seeking (successfully) the favour of Queen Elizabeth I. The poem is a long allegory of Christian belief, tied into England's mythology of King Arthur. In form, the poem is an epic, in the style of Beowulf and the verses of Virgil and Homer.

The language is purposely antique. As such, it is supposed to remind readers of such earlier works as those mentioned above, as well 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 on the occasion of his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle.

Spenser's effort to match the epic proportions of the Aeneid earned his place in English literature. For The Faerie Queene, Spenser devised a verse form that has come to be known as the "Spenserian stanza."

Two poets influenced by Edmund Spenser were John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, and John Keats.

Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto xi. St. 54.

And as she lookt about, she did behold, How over that same dore was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold, That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it By any ridling skill, or commune wit. At last she spyde at that roomes upper end, Another yron dore, on which was writ, Be not too bold; whereto though she did bend Her earnest mind, yet wist not what it might intend.

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Clever

A bold bad man. (references; author: Edmund Spenser)

Wars and alarums unto nations wide. (references; author: Edmund Spenser)

All for love, and nothing for reward. (references; author: Edmund Spenser)

That here on earth is no sure happiness. (references; author: Edmund Spenser)

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. (references; author: Edmund Spenser)

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Familiar Quotations: Edmund Spenser

Author	Quotation
Edmund Spenser	A bold bad man.
	Wars and alarums unto nations wide.
	All for love, and nothing for reward.
	That here on earth is no sure happiness.
	And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
	Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
	Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
	But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-m-n-n-p-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: suspendered.
	-3 letters: demureness, superseded.
	-4 letters: depressed, supersede, suspended, suspender, undressed, unpressed.
	-5 letters: deepness, demesnes, denuders, depermed, emenders, enureses, nudeness, pressmen, presumed, presumes, pureness, remended, rudeness, seedsmen, speeders, spenders, spudders, sundered, supermen, unmended, unneeded, unseeded.
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Alternative Orthography: Edmund Spenser

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 64 6D 75 6E 64 53 70 65 6E 73 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0064 006D 0075 006E 0064 0053 0070 0065 006E 0073 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
edmund spenser	39
edmund spenser sonnet	4
edmund spenser fairy queen	4
edmund spenser amoretti	2
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Language		Translations for "edmund spenser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		edmunday enserspay.(various references)
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