EDMUND SPENSER AND HIS WORKS AS A POET

Edmund Spenser is a great English poet who connected medieval and Elizabethan literature. Spenser was born in London and graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1576. In 1579 he met the English poet Sir Philip Sydney and entered the service of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Philip Sydney, who born in 1554, was a contemporary of Edmund Spenser. But Spenser’s literary career is broader than that of Sydney. This happened because Sydney had to fulfill his duties as a soldier and statesman and left the world at the age of 32, in the prime of his life. However, it was Sydney who introduced Spenser to the court and hired him under the Earl of Leicester