By whom Edmund Spenser was patronized?
Edmund
Spenser contributed 1568 a number of Visions and Sonnets from (Petrarch and Du
Bellay) to an edifying Theatre for Wordings'. Spenser obtained in 1578, through
his college friend G. Harvey, a place in Leicester's household, and become
acquainted with Sir Philip Sidney. With Sidney, Dyer, and others, formed a
literary club styled 'Areopagus'. In 1579 he began the 'Faerie Queene' and
published his 'Shepherd's Calendar'. In 1580, he was appointed secretary to
Lord Grey De Wilton, then going to Ireland as lord deputy, and acquired
Kilcolman Castle in county Cork. Here he settled and occupied himself with
literary artwork, writing his elegy ' Astrphel or Sir Philip Sidney and
preparing the Faerie Queene for the press, three books of this work being entrusted
to the printer on the poet's visit to London in 1589. He returned to Kilcolman
and penned ‘Colin Clouts Come Home Againe’ printed 1595. The success of the
Faerie Queene led the printer, Ponsonby to issue in 1591 his minor Verses and
Juvenilia, in part, rewritten, as ‘Complaints’.
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