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

The Arcadian Rhetorike owes much to earlier critical treatises, but has a special interest from its references to Edmund Spenser, and Fraunce quotes from the Faerie Queene a year before the publication of the first books.

He was also joint author of The Pictorial History of England, and wrote books on Edmund Spenser and Francis Bacon.

In imitation of Edmund Spenser, he wrote a poem in two books, entitled Thule, or Virtue's History ( 1598 ).

In 1757 Wilkie published ‘ The Epigoniad ,’ in nine books, based on the fourth book of the ‘ Iliad ,’ and written in heroic couplets in the manner of Alexander Pope's ‘ Homer .’ To a second edition in 1759 he appended an ingenious apologetic ‘ Dream in the manner of Spenser .’ On the appearance of this edition Hume warmly praised ‘ The Epigoniad ’ in a letter to the Critical Review, complaining that the journal had unduly depreciated the poem when first published.

He produced woodcuts and wood engravings first as decorations to literary periodicals, and then increasingly as illustrations for books produced by the private presses ; these include Jonathan Swift ’ s Directions to Servants ( Golden Cockerel Press, 1925 ) and Edmund Spenser ’ s The Shepheard ’ s Calendar ( Cresset Press, 1930 ).

After Spenser, alexandrine couplets were used by Michael Drayton in his Poly-Olbion.

An intellectual autodidact, his tastes in literature were typical of an educated Victorian painter, including Spenser, Virgil, Ruskin and Tennyson, from whose works much of his iconography can be traced.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims " were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same ".

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.

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 ).

The earliest odes in the English language, using the word in its strict form, were the Epithalamium and Prothalamium of Edmund Spenser.

Most of his TV series were short-lived, although several, such as Vega $ and Spenser: For Hire, proved to be successes.

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.

Puzzled by the gap between the bare facts of William Shakespeare's life and his vast literary output, she intended to prove that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, for the purpose of inculcating a philosophic system, for which they felt that they themselves could not afford to assume the responsibility.

To the beginning of his four and a half years ' residence in Italy belong the forty-seven sonnets of his Antiquités de Rome, which were rendered into English by Edmund Spenser ( The Ruins of Rome, 1591 ).

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.

In a letter to M. Immerito ( Edmund Spenser ) he says that Edward Dyer and Philip Sidney were helping forward " our new famous enterprise for the exchanging of Barbarous and Balductum Rymes with Artificial Verses.

In the next year he wrote to Spenser complaining of the unauthorized publication of satirical verses of his which were supposed to reflect on high personages, and threatened seriously to injure his career.

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.

The erection of his magnificent tomb, however, by Nicholas Brigham in 1556 ( to where Chaucer's remains were then transferred ) and the nearby burial of Edmund Spenser in 1599 started a tradition that is still upheld.

Other TV credits were as Virginia in Emmy Award winning TV Movie " Who WIll Love My Children ," opposite Ann-Margret, " Robert Kennedy and His Times ," as young Pat Kennedy ( with River Phoenix and Chad Lowe ), the ABC After School Special " Just a Regular Kid-An AIDS story " ( with Christian Hoff and Dana Ashbrook ), Danny Thomas ' " One Big Family " ( w / Michael DeLuise ), " Spenser for Hire ," ( w / Robert Ulrich and Ron LcLarty ), " Lou Grant ," ( w / Ed Asner ) the TV Movie " Home Fires " ( w / Guy Boyd and Juliette Lewis ) and the Michael McKean TV Movie, " Town and Gown.

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.

His affiliations and proposed canon, however, were quite different: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence above any one novel by Henry James, Robert Bridges above T. S. Eliot, Charles Churchill above Alexander Pope, Fulke Greville and George Gascoigne above Sidney and Spenser.

Three of the players ( Gabriel Spenser, Robert Shaa, and Ben Jonson ) were arrested and sent to Marshalsea Prison.

Shaa and Spenser were released quickly, and even Jonson was out of jail by early in October.

Their Spenser work turned industry heads, and the pair joined the Emmy-nominated series Beauty and the Beast as staff writers, and were later named producers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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His first significant poem was " The Isle of Statues ", a fantasy work that took Edmund Spenser for its poetic model.

As proofs for this origin Spenser cites the alleged Irish customs of blood-drinking, nomadic lifestyle, the wearing of mantles and certain haircuts and

* Ben Jonson – playwright and poet, imprisoned for the 22 September 1598 killing of his fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.

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.

* Tityrus, a pseudonym used by Edmund Spenser for Geoffrey Chaucer in The Shepheardes Calender.

* Robert Urich-Famous actor most known for television shows " Vegas " and " Spenser: For Hire.

In Spenser: For Hire, he was a guest star for the 2nd season episode " Personal Demons ".

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.

* Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, Anthem for Chorus Suitable for Easter ; words by Edmund Spenser

Spenser leaves for London shortly afterwards.

* Robert Urich, actor best known for the TV series Vega $ and Spenser for Hire