Spenser in Ireland, possibly as a bearer of letters from the Earl of Leicester to Sir Henry Sidney and Sir William Drury, where he witnesses the execution of Murrogh O’Brien at Limerick. (recorded in View; Maley, 6)
Spenser appointed secretary to Arthur, fourteenth Lord Grey de Wilton, upon his departure from England to become Lord Deputy of Ireland. (Maley, 12) "Spenser was probably made an offer he could not refuse [as Grey’s secretary], and, although it may…
Date of Spenser’s sonnet to Harvey from Dublin, published in Harvey's Foure Letters(1592). (Maley, 43) Spenser is back in Dublin, either having returned by this date or having stayed in Dublin for much of the first half of the year, indicating…
The Spanish Armada battles the English in the Channel and North Sea, with the Spanish suffering a horrendous defeat. Spenser “devotes eighteen stanzas of curious allegory” to this battle in the FQ, 5.8.28-45. (Judson, 123) Since the…
