id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5819 Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia .html text/html 4589 498 73 Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Despite this, it remains one of the longest poems in the English language.[19] It is an allegorical work, and can be read (as Spenser presumably intended) on several levels of allegory, including as praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie-Queene (Longman-Annotated-English Poets, 2001, 2007) Edited by A. Washington University in St. Louis professor Joseph Lowenstein, with the assistance of several undergraduate students, has been involved in creating, editing, and annotating a digital archive of the first publication of poet Edmund Spenser's collective works in 100 years. ^ Web page titled "Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography" Archived 2 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English website, retrieved 24 September 2009 Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5819.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5819.txt