Edmund Spenser

legendary proportions, and their tales parallel one another in a number of aspects; but like any two stories, they also have their more prominent differences. Contrasting the dragon battles of the anonymous epic poem “Beowulf” and the first book of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, the heroes’ themselves are juxtaposed, and, individually, their motives and values are examined. Their specific differences correlate to the settings of their separate worlds, where their poets cleverly align them…

to men that not everything that they may perceive is what it seems. The author views men easily giving up their freedom for something they find appealing without truly understanding the possible consequences. This poem makes parallels between how Edmund see’s women tricking men to marry them and how men are weak for falling for such a trick that will restrain them from their freedom. In Edmond’s literary piece he uses figures of speech and symbols in order to provide his warning to men about the…

“I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words are not mine,” for which the king would speak to his son in Act 3, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s longest written piece, Hamlet (Hamlet from Folger Digital Texts). As it would appear, among many a reputable scholar these words ring true pertaining to its author. The majority of those well-versed in Shakespearean history theorize that Shakespeare was not the true author of the literary works in his name. Evidence corroborating the claim…

There were many other poets that influenced him and his work like Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Hellenism, and Shakespeare. (The Influences on John Keats: Hellenism, Milton and Shakespeare) Keats was inspired by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene to abandon his studies on becoming a surgeon and return back to his love for poetry and pursue it as his career. (Poetry Foundation) He used Hellenistic…

Art, architecture, and literature are solid representations of the values and ideals during a time period because they all allow for the designer to give their views and their representation of what they see and believe. There are so many possible ways to express yourself and show what and how you see life and the world around you. It has been said that art is the gateway to the mind and this statement remains true. During the Renaissance times, many were seeing the world with a new light and…

death. Donne typically continues this train of thought throughout his poems, and does not have tendencies towards any positive aspects of fire. Water was often used to refer to tears, crying, sadness or calmness in sixteenth century poetry. Edmund Spenser wrote a poem entitled Sonnet XVIII which includes water in its content. The poem reads, And, when I weep, she says, “Tears are but water,” And, when I sigh, she says, “I know the…

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The Nine Years War and its aftermath are without question one of the great turning points of Irish history. In addition to witnessing the zenith of Gaelic military power and sophistication, perversely, it also led to the final destruction of native military and political power. Despite the apparent modernisation of the native Irish forces it is not hard to find articles and attitudes which view the war as a contest of the backward and militarily weak Irish, against the modern armies of Elizabeth…

As a high school student, we are told William Shakespeare is the true author of his so-called “work,” but I say he is not. I believe Mary Sidney is the true author of the works attributed to Shakespeare; I say this because she was “the first major female literary figure in England” (Anne Underwood), the second most intelligent women in her time, and her personal symbol were swans. In doing so, Mary Sidney had her hard work taken away from her because everyone assumed Shakespeare was the true…

Shakespeare's plays and poems were written during the English Renaissance; he wrote alongside other remarkable writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and many others. Shakespeare has remained a preeminent figure who wrote 37 plays and 150 sonnets with some of his famous tragedies including Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello. Each generation creates their own interpretation regarding Shakespeare’s work. All nations with theatrical conventions can…