# Edmund Spenser — On the Art of Writing character guide

> Edmund Spenser in On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Spenser

**First appearance:** 0010-lecture-viii-on-the-lineage-of-english-literature-i

## Who they are

Elizabethan poet discussed for his allegorical epic The Faerie Queene.

## In the story

### [Lecture XI: English Literature in Our Universities (II)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/on_the_art_of_writing_se/chapters/lecture-xi-english-literature-in-our-universities-ii)

Recipient of Harvey's letters; mentioned as a poet whom Harvey tried to influence.

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