Spenser in Ireland
Title
Spenser in Ireland
Subject
Spenser in Ireland
Description
Spenser's time in Ireland
Creator
Sarah Parrish
Date Created
4-16-18
References
“Biography.” Spenser Online, http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/scholarly-resources/biography/. Accessed March 2018.
Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford UP, 2012.
Judson, Alexander C. The Life of Edmund Spenser. Edited by Greenlaw, E., Osgood, C.G., Padelford, F.M., Heffner, R.Oxford UP, 1945.
Maley, Willy. A Spenser Chronology. MacMillian, 1994.
Spenser, Edmund. Selected Letters and Other Papers. Edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher, Oxford UP, 2009.
Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford UP, 2012.
Judson, Alexander C. The Life of Edmund Spenser. Edited by Greenlaw, E., Osgood, C.G., Padelford, F.M., Heffner, R.Oxford UP, 1945.
Maley, Willy. A Spenser Chronology. MacMillian, 1994.
Spenser, Edmund. Selected Letters and Other Papers. Edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher, Oxford UP, 2009.
Collection Items
September 7 1580
Lord Grey receives the sword of state and takes the oath of office. Spenser likely recalls this ceremony in the FQ when Artegall receives Chrysaor, "the sword of adamant and gold whose terrible strokes nothing on earth could resist." (Judson, 89)
References
“Biography.” Spenser Online, http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/scholarly-resources/biography/. Accessed March 2018. Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford UP, 2012. Judson, Alexander C. The Life of Edmund Spenser.…
January 16 1599
Spenser is buried in Westminster Abbey, with an inscription reading; “Here lyes, expecting the second comminge of our Saviour Christ Jesus, the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs noe other witnesse than…
January 13 1599
Spenser dies in London. (Burlinson and Zurcher, 234; Judson, 202) “Ben Jonson told Drummond ‘that the Irish having robbed Spenser’s good and burnt his house and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped, and after[wards] he died for lack of…
December 30 1598
Spenser is paid £8 for delivering Norris’s letters, which indicates that “Ben Jonson’s claim that Spenser died ‘for lack of bread’ is unfounded.” (PROE. 351/543, f. 40r; Maley, 76; Hadfield, 386, 391)
December 24 1598
Spenser in England at Whitehall, where he delivers Norris’s letters detailing the state of affairs in Ireland. (Judson, 201) Hadfield says Spenser “may well have attended the court in session at Whitehall…but he probably completed his business before…
September 30 1598
Spenser made Sheriff of Cork, though he may not have been aware of his appointment until his later trip to England since he was a refugee. (Judson, 200)
Collection Tree
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