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Edmund Spenser

1552 - 1599

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Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Spenser has received more than 1,714,108 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Edmund Spenser is the 1,049th most popular writer (down from 701st in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 554th in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Writer.

Edmund Spenser is most famous for his epic poem The Faerie Queene.

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  • 62

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  • 5.88

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edmund Spenser ranks 1,049 out of 5,755Before him are Natalie Clifford Barney, D. T. Suzuki, Meša Selimović, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Ernst Barlach, and Fredric Brown. After him are Mori Ōgai, Kobayashi Issa, Emil Ludwig, Alfred Brehm, Adalbert Stifter, and Velimir Khlebnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Edmund Spenser ranks 11Before him are Matteo Ricci, Seonjo of Joseon, Lavinia Fontana, Hans von Aachen, Henri, Prince of Condé, and Jost Bürgi. After him are Petrus Plancius, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Dom Justo Takayama, Marfa Sobakina, Anna of Cleves, and Pietro Cataldi. Among people deceased in 1599, Edmund Spenser ranks 3Before him are Beatrice Cenci and Gabrielle d'Estrées. After him are Luca Marenzio, Maeda Toshiie, Andrew Báthory, Eknath, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Chōsokabe Motochika, Cornelis de Houtman, Simone Peterzano, and Francisco Guerrero.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Spenser ranks 829 out of 7,765Before him are Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), Charlotte Cooper (1870), Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Mary Mallon (1869), W. O. Bentley (1888), and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982). After him are Charles Vane (1680), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Pete Townshend (1945), Petula Clark (1932), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Joseph Chamberlain (1836).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edmund Spenser ranks 101Before him are Henry Fielding (1707), John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), James Hadley Chase (1906), and Jerome K. Jerome (1859). After him are Robert Graves (1895), W. H. Auden (1907), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Patrick White (1912), Allan Pinkerton (1819), and Thomas Chatterton (1752).