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Edmund Spenser
Elizabethan poet discussed for his allegorical epic The Faerie Queene.
minor
Also known as Spenser
First appearance: lecture viii on the lineage of english literature i
Edmund Spenser shows up with force in Lecture XI: English Literature in Our Universities (II). The page is where that presence becomes real.
Recipient of Harvey's letters; mentioned as a poet whom Harvey tried to influence.
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