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In 1596 Spenser took three more books of The Faerie Queene to London for publication. While in England he completed a prose work, Veue of the Present State of Ireland, which was not issued until long after his death in 1633. He did publish at this time Fowre Hymnes (1596), poems in honor of love and beauty. For a double wedding of two daughters of the nobility in 1596, Spenser composed the “Prothalamion,” one of his loveliest shorter lyrical poems. Again disappointed of royal patronage, he returned to Ireland. In October 1598 his castle was sacked and burned by Irish rebels, and Spenser fled to London, where he died on January 13, 1599.
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The most telling quality of the man behind the Spenser mask was evident when the Faerie Queene was published. Here was an intellectual colossus. Anyone could have had the idea of writing a poem about the various human passions and affections. That was the standard subject of intellectual conversation at the French Court when Francis Bacon had visited a short time before. But this poet, although his Faerie Queene was supposedly only half complete, had written the longest poem in the English language. And in his Faerie Land (the enchanted realm of the human mind) had constructed detailed and intricate personifications of hundreds upon hundreds of emotions all combined with the most exquisite poetry and intricate numeric symbolism conceivable.
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"I have taught the Faerie Queene at all levels of instruction; speaking from experience, I can say that I would have found the present volume useful. It is encouraging to teachers of the poem.... Editors Miller and Dunlop have done a genuine service by bringing together in one volume essays that amply demonstrate that Spenser is in good hands in the college classroom. On the whole the essays here are well written, witty, clearly focused, and strongly argued, and reveal considerable variety in teaching techniques and course-specific approaches."
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From 1589 to 1598, the English poet Edmund Spenser lived in Kilcolman Castle in Ireland, and there he composed much of The Faerie Queene, the greatest epic poem of the Elizabethan age. This fairyland came to an end in October 1598, when Irish rebels burned the castle; the poet died in London the following year. Spenser's son rebuilt Kilcolman, but it burned again in 1622 and has stood in ruins ever since.
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