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 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.

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.

** John Spenser, editor and translator ( born 1559 )

* January 13-Edmund Spenser, English poet ( born 1552 )

He is married and has three children: two sons, Grant and Spenser, born in 1989 and 1995, and a daughter, Mara, born in 1990.

William Shakespeare, who was not even born until 1564, is mentioned in Chapter 17 as an adult and as being known at court, rubbing shoulders with Edmund Spenser, whose first major work The Shepheardes Calender was not published until 1579 ; and in Chapter 16, Queen Elizabeth even quotes from Troilus and Cressida, which was written around 1602.

At the end of the novel, Spenser leaves his father and uncles behind in Wyoming to attend college in Boston.

This is because the same note also refers to Spenser and Watson as if they were still alive (" our flourishing metricians "), but also mentions " Owen's new epigrams ", published in 1607.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

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.

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.

The other major character in the Spenser novels is his close friend Hawk.

An African American, Hawk is an equally tough but somewhat shady echo of Spenser himself.

It is mentioned by such poets as Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Bertrand Cantat.

The Sweet Thames line is taken from Edmund Spenser ’ s Prothalamion which presents a more idyllic image:

She then married Spenser Gregson, who is her husband for most of the Wodehouse canon, though he dies in time for her to marry Craye, who had by then become Lord Worplesdon, Earl of Worplesdon, whereupon she becomes Lady Worplesdon.

Spenser dedicated his Ruines of Time to her, and refers to her as " Urania " in Colin Clout's come home againe ; in Spenser's Astrophel she is " Clorinda ".

It is conjectured that he came up to London in 1593, and became acquainted with Watson, Drayton, and perhaps with Edmund Spenser.

This is a book of extreme interest ; it exemplifies the earliest study both of Spenser and Shakespeare.

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.

William Shakespeare used the abandonment and discovery of Perdita in The Winter's Tale, and Edmund Spenser reveals in the last Canto of Book 6 of The Faerie Queen that the character Pastorella, raised by shepherds, is in fact of noble birth.

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.

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

While she waits for him at the piazza, Renato's assistant Vito ( Jeremy Spenser ) arrives and inadvertently reveals that he is Renato's son.

Spenser and his friends appear under various pseudonyms ( Spenser himself is " Colin Clout ").

It is composed of six books but Spenser intended to write twelve.