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Edmund Spenser, a renowned English poet, was born in England in 1552. His poetry has had a profound impact on literature, with his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' being hailed as a classic of English literature.

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Famous Edmund Spenser Quotes

“For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”

Knows Beauty Blood Gentle

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)

“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”

Gentle Knights Faerie

Author:Edmund Spenser

“How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!”

May Might Remember Names Forever Pride Wit Gentle Cherish Great Ones Authorship Sponges

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile”

Heart May Joy Gentle Venus

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

“Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.”

Mind Kind Courses Gentle Power Of Love

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin

“Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair”

Play Spirit Sweet Fairs Hot Breathing Gentle Delay Beam Titans Gentle Spirit

Book:Minor poems

Source: Minor poems

“The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.”

Men Mind Wells Known Deeds Manners Gentle Betrayed

Author:Edmund Spenser

“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.”

Deeds Gentle Gentleman

Author:Edmund Spenser

About the Author

Born: 1552
Died: January 13, 1599
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 153

Books & Sources

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertationsRelated source material

The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and WritingsRelated source material

Amoretti And EpithalamionRelated source material

Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poemsRelated source material

Minor poemsRelated source material

Poetical worksRelated source material

The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserRelated source material

The Works of Mr. Edmund SpenserRelated source material

Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetryRelated source material

Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)Related source material

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