Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an important English poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem celebrating, through fantastical ...
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) Edmund Spenser by Benjamin Wilson (detail) (Pembroke College, Cambridge) From Amoretti. 1. "Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands" 3.