1596 in literature

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Edmund Spenser 16th-century English poet

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

<i>The Faerie Queene</i> English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine different virtues, and though the text is primarily an allegorical work, it can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors", he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devices", and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline".

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David Lee Miller is a scholar of English Renaissance Literature. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. His works include The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queen, ; Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness ; three edited books; and about two dozen refereed articles that have appeared in scholarly journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, English Literary History, and Publications of the Modern Language Association. He is one of four general editors of The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser, a new scholarly edition under contract to Oxford University Press.

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 1648 poem by Robert Herrick

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick in the 17th century. The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for "seize the day".

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— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"

William Ponsonby (publisher)

William Ponsonby was a prominent London publisher of the Elizabethan era. Active in the 1577–1603 period, Ponsonby published the works of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and other members of the Sidney circle; he has been called "the leading literary publisher of Elizabethan times."

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John Upton was an English clergyman, academic and critic. An important early editor of Edmund Spenser, he is best known for the notes in his 1758 edition of Spenser's great romance epic The Faerie Queene, which was first published in 1590 and 1596.

— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax

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Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon

Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon was an English noblewoman, scholar, and patron of the arts. She was the inspiration for Edmund Spenser's Muiopotmos, was commemorated in one of the poet's dedicatory sonnets to the Faerie Queene, and was represented as "Phyllis" in the latter's pastoral poem Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. She herself translated Petrarch. Her first husband was George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, grandson of Mary Boleyn, elder sister of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

Fairy Queen Figure from Irish and British folklore, believed to rule the fairies

The Fairy Queen or Queen of the Fairies is a figure from Irish and British folklore, believed to rule the fairies. Based on Shakespeare's influence, in English-speaking cultures she is often named Titania or Mab.

References

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  2. William Harrison; Georges Edelen (1 January 1994). The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life. Courier Corporation. p. 3. ISBN   978-0-486-28275-6.
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  6. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. VNR AG. 1984. p. 95. ISBN   978-0-07-079169-5.
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  8. Alexander Chalmers (1812). The General Biographical Dictionary. p. 146.
  9. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. R.S. Peale. 1891. p. 417.
  10. Bernhard Maier (2009). William Robertson Smith: His Life, His Work and His Times. Mohr Siebeck. p. 91. ISBN   978-3-16-149995-1.
  11. Madeleine de l'Aubespine (15 September 2008). Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition. University of Chicago Press. p. 9. ISBN   978-0-226-14195-4.
  12. Howell A. Lloyd (2017). Jean Bodin: 'this Pre-eminent Man of France' : an Intellectual Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 239. ISBN   978-0-19-880014-9.