In Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene 8 lines of pentameter are followed by an alexandrine, the eponymous Spenserian stanza.

** The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser ( 1596 )

On the other hand, Edmund Spenser applies elf to full-sized beings in The Faerie Queene.

( epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem.

In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

Such plot devices were used in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( 1601 ), The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser in 1590, and James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage ( 1633 ).

Edmund Spenser, a famous English poet best known for his epic poem ' The Faerie Queene '

Hawk may be modeled on the sidekick in Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ; Artegal, the knight of justice, has a helper named Talus, an invincible man of iron.

The strong influence of the Aeneid has been identified in the development of European vernacular literatures — some English works that show its influence being Beowulf, Layamon's Brut ( through the source text Historia Regum Britanniae ), The Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost.

The meaning " something which stands for something else " was first recorded 1590, in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Jack Zipes writes in When Dreams Came True, " There are fairy tale elements in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and ... in many of William Shakespeare plays ".

Some of the details of the creation of Narnia, such as the emergence of animals from the ground, and the way they shake earth from their bodies are also similar to John Milton's Paradise Lost, and may also have been inspired by descriptions of the processes of nature in The seventh book of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as in King Lear.

* In the Medieval epic poem The Faerie Queene, Sir Artagel's sword is made of Adamant.

A descriptive narrative of a processional masque is the masque of the Seven Deadly Sins in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ( Book i, Canto IV ).

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

The English epic poet Edmund Spenser further embellished this myth at the opening of Book V of The Faerie Queene ( 1596 ), where he claims that Astraea left behind " her groome | An yron man ", called Talus.

In Spencer's The Faerie Queene, a fiend from Hell disguised as a beautiful woman is called Ate.

* Butler, George F., " Spenser, Milton, and the Renaissance Campe: Monsters and Myths in The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, in Milton Studies 40, Albert C. Labriola ( Editor ), University of Pittsburgh Press ; 1st edition ( December 13, 2001 ).

In Spenser's The Faerie Queene the Phlegethon is to be found in hell, and is portrayed as a " fiery flood " where " the damned ghosts in torments fry " ( Canto V, 291-291 ).

* R. Neuse, Book VI as Conclusion to The Faerie Queene, 1968.

The story of Hylas and the nymphs is alluded to in Book 3 of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Canto XII, Stanza 7:

In the Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene ( 1590-96 ), Silvanus appears in Canto VI of Book I.

Some scholars have seen Erulus as an influence on Spenser's conception of Triamond's three-fold life in The Faerie Queene.

" The document includes a tepid appreciation of Spenser's Faerie Queene which had been sent to him for his opinion, and he gives examples of English hexameters illustrative of the principles enunciated in the correspondence.

The incidents and plot devices of the Italian epics later became central to works of English literature such as Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ; Spenser attempted to adapt the form devised to tell the tale of the triumph of Christianity over Islam to tell instead of the triumph of Protestantism over Roman Catholicism.

* Sir Orfeo, material including a recitation in Middle English by Professor Corey Olson of Washington College as part of his Faerie and Fantasy course, spring 2011

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

These poems, in turn, were imitated in English by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, although Spenser's work has been separated from the Matter of France and put in the setting of an imaginary faerie land.

This movement is characterized by the flowering of English music ( particularly the English adoption and development of the madrigal ), notable achievements in drama ( by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson ), and the development of English epic poetry ( most famously Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and John Milton's Paradise Lost ).

Rogan attended St Vincents, RC, and Pimlico School and spent the entire 70s as a student, obtaining his first degree in English Language & Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after which he completed an MA at Acadia University in Canada, specializing in Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen ( 1596 ) and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th Century.

One English romance is The Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser.

The epic Elizabethan poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was published, in its first part, in 1590 and then in completed form in 1597.

The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene.

Orlando Furioso was a major influence on Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene.

In 1590, Edmund Spenser also composed a very famous pastoral epic called The Faerie Queene, in which he employs the pastoral mode so as to accentuate the charm, lushness, and splendor of the poem's ( super ) natural world.

Before Shakespeare it was also used in Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene and in the anonymous play King Leir.

It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene ( 1590 ).

While living as tenant at Little Holland House, Watts's epic paintings were exhibited in Whitechapel by his friend and social reformer Canon Samuel Barnett, and he finally received a commission for the Houses of Parliament, completing his The Triumph of the Red Cross Knight ( from The Faerie Queene ) in 1852-53.

* Edmund Spenser references Faith, Hope and Charity in Book I of his epic poem The Faerie Queene through the characters of Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa.

The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene ( Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6 ):

Edmund Spenser, the poet, made the district famous in his epic The Faerie Queene.

Moreover, as Ariosto's epic was a source text for Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Belphebe's mind has become confused, reverting in accord with the setting to that of her Furioso prototype, Belphagor.

* King Arthur also features as " Prince Arthur " in some works, as in Richard Blackmore's epic Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen

Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene was well known, but England, unlike France with The Song of Roland or Spain with the Cantar de Mio Cid or, most of all, Italy with the Aeneid, had no epic poem of national origins.

The poem begins in the tone of an epic masterpiece, presenting Shadwell's defining characteristic as dullness, just as every epic hero has a defining characteristic: Odysseus's is cunning ; Achilles's is wrath ; the hero of Spenser's The Faerie Queene is of holiness ; whilst Satan in Paradise Lost has the defining characteristic of pride.

Soon after his publication of The Shepheardes Calender, Spenser began writing his epic, The Faerie Queene.

* Braggadocchio, a fictional character in the epic poem The Faerie Queene