Why Edmund Spenser Matters
|
Posted 06.26.2012
|
Huffington Post
Read More:
Literature,
Elizabethan England,
Colonialism,
Romance-Epic,
Poet,
Ireland,
Edmund Spenser,
Post-Colonialism,
Poetry,
Faerie Queen,
Huffington Post News
Literary biographers almost invariably conclude that their subject is unjustly neglected and deserves to be more widely read. Few writers have a reputation as uninspiring as Edmund Spenser (1554?-99), a poet who commands hardly any general readers and who English undergraduates routinely shun.
