Spenser as a non dramatic poet

2.  In English literature we learn many age and every age
give different idea and new writer in literature by his
work.
 Spenser was the non dramatic poet in Elizabethan age
In this every poet famous by his work and it became
fashion.
 Shakespeare – Tragedy
 Marlow _ plays
 Spenser’s _ Fairy Queen
 Ben Johnson _ Comedy
 Bacons _ Essays
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3.  Spenser’s life and work seem to centre up in three
names :
 Cambridge where he grew with the classical and
Italian poets;
 London he experienced the the glamour of the
disappointment of court life;
 In Ireland, which steeped him to in the beauty and
imagery of old Celtic poetry and he gave him the first
leisure to write his masterpiece.

4.  LIFE of Spenser
 He was born in Eastfield near tower of London in poor
family. He passed his early life in poor situation.
 He begun his education at the Merchant Tailors
school in London and continued study in Cambridge.
 Here in the glorious work only poor scholar knows
how to create for himself he reads classics, with the
great Italian poet's write numberless collection of the
poetry.
 He decide the great ambition was not to rival
“Canterbury Tales". But rather to express the dream of
English.
 After Cambridge (1576) he went to England on some
of unknown work.

5.  His chief work write at that time he fell in love the
Shepherd's Calendar.
 After Shepherd Calendar he meet Sir Philip Sidney
and they became queen’s favourite.
 In 1580 Spenser was made secretary to lord Grey, the
queen’s deputy in Ireland. His life here ,where
according to the terms of his grant he must reside as
an English settler.
 After sixteen years’ residence he wrote his “View of the
state of Ireland(1596),it is the one of his prose work.
 He calculated cold, famine sickness would help the
work of the sword. Strange as it may seem, the view
was considered most states manlike,exellently well
received in England.

6.  Spenser finished the first three books of the Fairy Queen.
In 1589 heard the poem with enthusiasm. First three books
met with instant success when published and were
acclaimed as the greatest work in the English language.
 Spenser fell in love with his beautiful Elizabeth at that time
Spenser wrote ‘Amoretti’ or he wrote sonnet also.
 Spenser next visit London was in 1595 when he published
‘Astrophel’ it is elegy on the death of his friend Sidney
and write three more books of the ‘Fairy queen’.
 It is supposed that some unfinished parts of the Fairy
queen burned into the castle.
 He returned to England heartbroken, in the the following
year (1599) he died in an Westminster. According to Ben
Johnson he died “for want of bread.”

7.  The Fairy Queen is the great work upon which the poet’s
fame chiefly rests. The original plan of the poem
included twenty-four books, each of which was to
recount the adventure and triumph of a knight.
 It is therefore purely allegorical, not only in its
personified virtues but also in its also in its
representation.
 In its strong moral element the poem differs radically
from Orlando Furisio, upon which it was modelled.
 Spenser completed only six books, celebrating
holiness,Temperance,Chastity,Friendship,Justice.
 The first three book are by far the best; and judging by
the way the interest lags and the allegory.

8.  On each day some distressed person appears, tells a
woful story of dragons of distressed beauty or virtue
and asks for champion to right the wrong and to let
the oppressed go free.
 In the first three book fairy Queen sometime
represented the glory of god and sometime Elizabeth.
In the last three book Elizabeth again appear Mercilla;
Henry 5th France as Bourbon.
 The Fairy Queen Spenser’s invented a new verse form,
which has been called since his day the Spenserian
stanza.
 The new stanza improved forms in the Ariosto's
Ottava rima and one of Chaucer's most musical verse
form.

9.  His masterpiece poem is Shepherd's calendar (1579).It
is publication of this work 1579by unknown writer.
 The Briar and the Oak
 Mother Hubbard's tale, This poem about a satire on
society.
 ‘Astrophel’ an elegy on the death of Sidney
 Amoretti, or sonnets
Characteristic of Spenser’s poetry:
1. A perfect Malady
2. A rare sense of beauty
3. A imagination
4. A delicate idealism
5. A lofty moral purity and seriousness.