Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 in London , † January 13 1599 ) was an English poet , elder contemporary and one of the models of William Shakespeare .
• He was born in 1552 or 1553, the son of the tailor John Spenser and his wife Elizabeth, from Lincolnshire had come to London. Edmund attended Merchant Taylor's School , where the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster tested a new educational idea. Mulcaster saw not only the Latin culture, but also the native language ie English, Education, to be important. Spenser studied from 1569 to 1576 at Pembroke College of Cambridge University .
Circa 1579 patronized him Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester , and introduced him to Sir Philip Sidney known. This year married Spenser, and anonymously published The Shepheardes
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Spenser is usually as a student and admirer of Geoffrey Chaucer , the author of the Canterbury Talesconsidered. However, Chaucer is stylistically rather attributable to the Christian Middle Ages, as well as Spenser himself with his style similar to Chaucer's work The Shepeardes Calender . Between ... "The Shepeardes Calender" and "The Faerie Queene" is a huge change in style , writes the art historian Camille Paglia . Chaucer is populist, Spenser is a representative of hierarchical. Chaucer's style is medieval, Catholic and wordy, is full of Gothic sway and flourishes. Spenser's epic is only superficially Christian , on closer inspection he rekurriere on style, content and perspectives of pagan antiquity . Particularly impressive to show this to the figure of the androgynous heroine Britomart who devotes Spenser a whole book within his epic, a Babylonian goddess who defeated all men, and with all their aggressive defense of chastity has a confusing sexual charisma with strong homoerotic touch. Unlike Chaucer, whose characters remain one-dimensional arrested their role, make Spenser's heroines and heroes in the course of the narrative complex changes and developments through, as Camille …show more content…
The rhyme scheme of the Spenserstrophe is ababbcbcc .
Example of The Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto xi. 54th St. :
And as she lookt about, she did behold,
How did over same dore what Likewise
Spenser, in his letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, points out the most obvious allegorical devices that run through the...
During the middle ages in England, 1154-1485, Henry II was king throughout the Renaissance; England established parish churches with their towers and had now retired from their late medieval form. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the late 1300’s in London. He worked as a servant in the 1350’s making little to no money, just enough to pay for his own things. In 1366 Chaucer got married to a woman named Philippa. He started again and fulfilled diplomatic missions in Florence, Italy in 1370 through 1373. Chaucer had no time to write poetry, his true passion. His wife Philippa died in 1387 but he just kept working to pay debts.
William Shakespeare has become landmark in English literature. One must be familiar with the early days of English literature in order to comprehend the foundation of much of more modern literature’s basis. Shakespeare’s modern influence is still seen clearly in many ways. The success of Shakespeare’s works helped to set the example for the development of modern dramas and plays. He is also acknowledged for being one of the first writers to use any modern prose in his writings.
In 1564, a man was born by the name of William Shakespeare. He was born to a poor family, was given little education, and had no interaction with sophisticated society. Thirty-eight plays and over 150 sonnets are not attributed to this ignorant man. Those who believe that Shakespeare was the author have no definitive proof but instead point to Hamlet’s declaration: "The play’s the thing(Satchell 71)." The true author, however, lies hidden behind he name of Shakespeare. Edward de Vere the premier Earl of Oxford is not only considered a great poet in history, but he may also be the great playwright who concocted the sonnets and plays which are now attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford, England.
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. His parents were Ruth Haskins and William Emerson. When Emerson was a you boy at the age of 7 his dad died from stomach cancer. Emerson attended formal schooling at Boston Latin School in 1812 when he was 9. At the age of 14 he went to Harvard College and he was the messenger as a freshmen. Midway during his junior year Emerson started a journal called "Wide World" which was consisted as all the names of the books he read. Also during his junior year in college he would work for his uncle as an occasional teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Shakespeare, William. Othello (c. 1602) E. A. J Honigmann (Ed.) Surrey: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 1997.
In “The Shephearde’s Calender”, a pastoral that in many ways is shaped by Virgil’s Aeneid as well as diverges in the inclusion of Christianity. Nonetheless, through the familiarity of the pastoral Spenser authored a landscape he envisioned, for what he deemed, as most benefactory for a more Protestant England. A country in which he was both indebted to serve and therefore to the best of his abilities try to shape through his authorship. However, accomplishing his goal was a risky game in the feudal system period that governed his world. A game of wordplay, which teeters on the brink of life and death for Spenser at the consciences of the those who hold the power. Nevertheless, Spenser consummates a plan that allows him to an extent to retain a degree of plausible deniability while at the same time subvert the minds of his Queen and governing nobles whose decisions sway the sociopolitical world. The goal is accomplished through several literary devices, however, this paper will focus on the way in which moulding the male character Colin Clout into an androgynous figure allowed Spencer to use him as a framing effect, whereby, using logos reasoning Colin bent the rules of normativity in masculinity and thereby can use this
Due to the confusion of a minor mistake from Shakespeare’s time, his true birth date, along with where his education took place remains a mystery. The only things that biographers have to hold onto are suspicions as to where these events could’ve been observed. His suspected is birthday is observed by the public as Saint George’s Day, April 23rd. With only a day given, his exact birth year remains a questionable theory. It is believed that Shakespeare actually attended the school closest to his home in Stratford, known as the “King’s New School”, where he studies grammar. He didn’t choose to continue his studies by going forward into a university. Since there is hardly any factual information about Shakespeare, due to a slight “error”, suspicion arises. ...
In 1359 Chaucer went to the war in France. While in France, Chaucer was held captive in the area of Reims. March 1st of 1360, King Edward III contributed £16 to his ransom. Records show that King Edward III paid Chaucer a pension of twenty marks for his past and future services on the 10th of June 1367. This means Chaucer must have been in King Edward's service about a year or two after his capture. Also during this time, Chaucer married his wife, Philippa de Roet, furthering his career in the English court even more.
Geoffrey Chaucer, England's first great poet, was born in 1343, during a time of social, political, religious and literary ferment. Chaucer, who was the descendent of a prosperous family from Ipswich, received the impetus for writing from fourteenth-century Italian and French poets. Chaucer--whose father was a successful wine dealer in London and whose mother, Agnes de Compton, a member of the English court--was reared in an intellectual environment of high society. He was well educated, having studied at the Universities of the Court. He lived among nobility in his service to the Court.
Shakespeare, William. “Hamlet.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. 11th ed. New York: Norton, 2013.1709-1804. Print.
“William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was and English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist” (vodppl.upm.edu 2). He was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK, he also passed away in his hometown. “When Shakespeare died in 1616 the event was barely noticed” (Epstein 7). “Shakespeare’s family was initially prosperous but began having financial difficulties in the 1570’s” (Allen 325). “Shakespeare gained his education by attending the local grammar school, King’s New School, where the curriculum stressed a classic education of Greek mythology and roman comedy”(shakespeareinamericancomunites.org 1). He never carried his educational career to a higher level as in a university. “William Shakespeare was not recognized as an actor, poet, and playwright until 1592” (Allen 346).
Shakespeare, William. The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1968.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London about 1340. Although many facts about his life are unknown, it is evident in his writing that Chaucer was a very educated man. After many years of being employed by English nobles, Chaucer began to travel to many different parts of Europe. While on these trips, Chaucer discovered the works...
His reputation was established in London around 1592. His first play he wrote was in 1593, it was called Venus and Adonis. He became a "gentleman" after inheriting his fathers coat-of-arms, even though actors were generally looked at as rogues and vagabonds. He probably wrote his 154 sonnets during this time as well. They were published later on in 1609.