Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Edmund Spenser
Died: January 13, 1599
Bio: Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Known for:
- The Faerie Queene
- Amoretti (1595)
- The Shepheardes Calender
- A view of the present state of Ireland
- Works of Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser Quotes