Written for the Globe edition of Spenser’s works, this life follows the poet from his London birth and Cambridge education through the circle of Sidney and Leicester, The Shepheardes Calender, his years as a colonial official in Ireland, the friendship with Raleigh, the publication of The Faerie Queene and his last troubled years.
A concise, scholarly introduction to the life behind the great Elizabethan epic. Download the free EPUB.