Edmund Spenser By: kaitlyn king
He wrote approximately 177 Poems and sonnets.
Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552. As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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 and Katherine.
In July 1580, Spenser went to Ireland in service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. Spenser served under Lord Gray with Walter Raleigh at the Siege of Smerwick massacre.When Lord Grey was recalled to England, Spenser stayed on in Ireland, having acquired other official posts and lands in the Munster Plantation. Raleigh acquired other nearby Munster estates confiscated in the Second Desmond Rebellion.
By 1594, Spenser's first wife had died, and in that year he married Elizabeth Boyle, to whom he addressed the sonnet sequence Amoretti. They had a son named Peregrine.
In 1596, Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled A View of the Present State of Ireland. This piece, in the form of a dialogue, circulated in manuscript, remaining unpublished until the mid-seventeenth century.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.
In 1598, during the Nine Years War, Spenser was driven from his home by the native Irish forces of Aodh Ó Néill. His castle at Kilcolman was burned.
In the year 1599, Spenser travelled to London, where he died at the age of 46 (13 January) His coffin was carried to his grave in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey by other poets. His second wife survived him and remarried twice.
"Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs"
Theme- Love
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Personification- With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark
Simile- Fair, when her breast, like a rich laden bark
Imagery- Fair when the rose in her cheeks appears
"Most Happy Letters"
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Honestly I have no idea if any other devices were used in the sonnet
"Easter"
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And I have no idea if any devices were used in this poem.