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Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.
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Raphael Holinshed calls her Voadicia, while Edmund Spenser calls her " Bunduca ", a version of the name that was used in the popular Jacobean play Bonduca, in 1612.
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.
Keats's first surviving poem, " An Imitation of Spenser ," had been written in 1814, when he was 19.
Spenser was born in Laramie, Wyoming and is a Boston private eye in the mold of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a smart-mouthed tough guy with a heart of gold.
After his mother's death ( which occurred prior to Spenser's birth — he was an emergency C-section ), Spenser was raised by his father and two uncles ( his mother's brothers ), all of them carpenters, who do not appear in the series.
However, by the time of the novel Pastime, Spenser states that his mother died during labor and he was delivered via Caesarian section, i. e. " not of woman born " as Parker has Spenser put it ; he was raised by his father and his two maternal uncles.
Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.
The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.
His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets.
His first significant poem was " The Isle of Statues ", a fantasy work that took Edmund Spenser for its poetic model.
In 1988 he made a cameo appearance as ' himself ' in an episode of Cheers, which was Boston-based like his own series ' Spenser '.
English readers were familiar with Mother Hubbard, already a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published his satire " Mother Hubbard's tale ", 1590 ; with the superstitious advice on getting a husband or a wife of " Mother Bunch ", who was credited with the fairy stories of Madame d ' Aulnoy when they first appeared in English.
His circle of friends and acquaintances included Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Stow, John Dee, Jacques de Thou and Ben Jonson, who was Camden's student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition of Every Man in His Humour to him.
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.
In Spenser: For Hire, he was a guest star for the 2nd season episode " Personal Demons ".
Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during the wars against the native Irish in Munster in the 1560s and 1570s, actions which earned the praise of the poet Edmund Spenser in his A View of the Present State of Ireland in 1596.
Spenser and former
" Spenser was surprisingly sophisticated for a private eye and former boxer.
* 127 Mount Vernon Street-home of The Real World: Boston and Spenser: For Hire, former Boston Fire Department station
Spenser and State
In A View of the Present State of Ireland, Edmund Spenser accepted and rejected various parts of the myth both to denigrate the Irish of his day and to justify English colonisation of Ireland in the 1590s ( at the height of the Anglo-Spanish war ).
However, the term " Redlegs " and its variants were in use for Irish soldiers of the same sort as those later transported to Barbados, and the variant " Red-shankes " is recorded by Edmund Spenser in his dialogue on " the Present State of Ireland " as early as the 16th century.
The second is from the View of the Present State of Ireland, written by English poet Edmund Spenser, who fought in the campaign:
Spenser and assigned
The British Government assigned Sir Spenser St. John to disentangle Her Royal Majesty's Government from indigenous free states and the Maya free state in particular.
Spenser and County
Baxter ran a successful mercantile business in Rutherford County with his brother-in-law Spenser Eaves.
Spenser and although
This requires some retconning — Spenser stopped making reference to his military service in the Korean War as an eighteen-year-old, as he did in the first novels — although in 2006's Hundred Dollar Baby Spenser mentions being on " R and R " in Japan before going back to the war, although exactly which war is not made clear.
Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, taught him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his own father's library.
Most of his TV series were short-lived, although several, such as Vega $ and Spenser: For Hire, proved to be successes.
Spenser, in his Teares of the Muses ( 1591 ), laments the same evils, although only in general terms.
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.
Spenser and some
Here appears what seems to be the absolutely earliest praise of Shakespeare in a piece entitled A Remembrance of some English Poets, in which the still unrecognized author of Venus and Adonis is celebrated by the side of Spenser, Daniel and Drayton.
Tennyson was, to some degree, the Spenser of the new age and his Idylls of the Kings can be read as a Victorian version of The Faerie Queen, that is as a poem that sets out to provide a mythic foundation to the idea of empire.
It was about this time, too, that he brought out Endimion and Phoebe, a volume which he never republished, but which contains some interesting autobiographical matter, and acknowledgments of literary help from Thomas Lodge, if not from Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel also.
Before this, Wilson had contributed to Blackwood's prose tales and sketches, and novels, some of which were afterwards published separately in Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life ( 1822 ), The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay ( 1823 ) and The Foresters ( 1825 ); later appeared essays on Edmund Spenser, Homer and all sorts of modern subjects and authors.
However the incorruptible Dr Spenser Quist and companions soon gave the agency some real power and people had to listen.
Many authors of the Elizabethan period, including Edmund Spenser, used characters from the tale in their own works, and some, like John Lane, even wrote complete continuations of it.
He was included in some contemporary lists of leading poets, but he seems to have lacked the stature of the aristocratic Philip Sidney, who became a cult figure due to his death in battle at a young age, or of Edmund Spenser.
Spenser and novels
Spenser ( his first name is never revealed ) is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins.
He is also featured in a television series ( Spenser: For Hire ) and a series of TV movies ( Spenser ( TV films )) based on the novels.
The other major character in the Spenser novels is his close friend Hawk.
The first three novels resemble private-eye detective stories, perhaps the closest being Robert B. Parker's Spenser series.
* Robert B. Parker ( 1932 – 2010 ), author of the Spenser detective novels
Spenser: For Hire is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels.
* The character in the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker
:* A Man Called Hawk, a television series based upon the character in the Spenser novels
* The Spenser detective novels, by Robert B. Parker
This changed by his first or second year of high school, when he discovered the TV series Spenser: For Hire, and later, the novels on which it was based by Robert B. Parker, whom Faerber names as the biggest single influence on his career as a writer.
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