Male : Poet. Married Machabyas Chyld in 1579 (died 1591) and Elizabeth Boyle in 1594. Called the 'poet's poet'. Went to Ireland in 1580 and wrote much of his work there in Kilcolman Castle (Cork) which was burnt in an insurrection in 1598. Buried in Westminster Abbey

Nationality : English Place of Birth : East Smithfield, London ?

Date of Birth : 1552 Date of Death : 1599 Age : 47

Education : Merchant Taylor's School, London & Pembroke Hall, Cambridge

The Shepheards Calendar, Containing Twelve Eclogues Proportionable to the Twelve Months (1579)
Three Proper and Witty familiar letters : Two Other Very Commendable Letters
(1580) - with Gabirel Harvey
Complaints, Containing Sundry Small Poems of the World's Vanity (1591)
Daphnaida : An Elegy Upon the Death of the Noble and Virtuous Douglas Howard (1591)
Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595)
[Epithalamion was written for Elizabeth Boyle]
Colin Clout Come Home Againe (1595 TC - Thos Creede for Wm Ponsonbie, London)
Four Hymns (1596)
Prothalamion, or A Spousal Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Lady Elizabeth and
Lady Katherine Somerset (1596)

The Faerie Queene (1589 & 1596)
The Faerie Queen, disposed into XII Bookes (1609 Mathew Lownes, London) - 1st complete Edition
The Faerie Queen, The Shepheards Calendar, Together with Other Works (1617 Lownes)
The Faerie Queene (1758 for the author by William Faden, London) - 4 vols
The Faerie Queene ... with a Glossary (1758 Tonson) - 2 vols
Tales from Spenser's Faerie Queen (1846 Cundall)
The Faerie Queen (1856 Routledge. 4th Ed)
The Faerie Queene (1880-2) - 10 vols. edited by Dr A B Grosart
The Faerie Queene (1897 Dent) - 2 vols. Louis Fairfax Muckley. 1250
The Faerie Queene (1897 George Allen) - 1000. 6 vols. Walter Crane
The Faerie Queene (1909 CUP) - 350. 2 vols
The Gateway to Spenser : Stories from the Fairy Queen (1912 Nelson) - Frank C Pape
The Faerie Queene (1953 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Agnes Miller Parker
The Faerie Queene : Coronation Edition (1953 Heritage Press, London & NY) - Agnes Miller Parker

17thC
The Works of that Famous English Poet : viz The Faery Queen, The Shepheards Calendar, the History
of Ireland, etc (1679 for Edwin, London. 3rd Folio Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £350

18thC
The Works .. with a Glossary (1715 Tonson) - 6 vols
A View of the State of Ireland as it was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth written by way
of a Dialogue between Eudoxus & Ireneus (1763 Flin, Dublin)

19thC
The Works .. by the Rev John Henry Todd (1805 Rivington) - 8 vols
The Poetical Works (1810 for John Sharpe, London) - 6 vols
The Poetical Works (1825 Wm Pickering, London) - 5 vols
The Poetical Works (1839 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets) - 5 vols
The Poetical Works (1839 Little & Brown, Boston) - 5 vols
The Poetical Works, with Memoir by Rev George Gilfillan (1859 Nichol, Edinburgh) - 5 vols
The Works .. by the Rev John Henry Todd (1861 Routledge)
The Works ... edited by J Payne Collier (1873 Bickers, London) - 5 vols
The Shepheard's Calendar (1898 Harper, London & NY) - Walter Crane

20thC
The Poetical Works (1909-10 Clarendon Press, Oxford) - 3 vols
Four Hymns on Earthly & Heavenly Love & Beauty (1912 LCC Central Sch of Arts & Crafts, London)
The Wedding Songs (1923 Golden Cockerel Press) - 345. Ethelbert White
Spenser's Minor Poems (1925 Ashendene Press) - 200
Works (1930-2 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - 386. 8 vols
The Shepeards Calendar (1930 Cresset Press, London) - 350. John Nash
Offered in 1991 for £325
Thalamos or the Brydall Boure (1932 PP by Christopher & Lettice Sandford in Devon) - 200
A View of the Present State of Ireland (1934 London) - Edited by W L Renwick
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (1940 Oxford) - Edited by Smith & De Selincourt
The Wedding Songs (1935 Golden Cockerel Press) - 345. Ethelbert White
A View of the Present State of Ireland (1970 Clarendon Press)

READING
F R Johnson : A Critical Bibliography of the Works of Edmund Spenser, printed before 1700
(1933 John Hopkins UP)
J Wurtsbaugh : Two Centuries of Spenserian Scholarship 1609-1805 (1936)
Dorothy F Atkinson : Supplement to above by Johnson (1937 JHUP)
Leicester Bradner : Spenser and the Faerie Queene (1948)
Alastair Fowler : Spenser and the Numbers of Time (1964)
D Cheney : Spenser's Image of Nature - Wild Man and Shepherd in the Faerie Queen (1966)
Rosemary Freeman : The Faerie Queene - A Companion for Readers (1970)
Waldo F McNeir & Foster Provost : Spenser - An Annotated Bibliography 1937-1972 (1975)
(Ed) Judith H Anderson : Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography
(1996 Massachusetts UP £29.95) - et al