Quick Facts

• NAME: Edmund Spenser
• OCCUPATION: Poet
• BIRTH DATE: c. 1552
• DEATH DATE: January 13, 1599
• EDUCATION: University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
• PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England
• PLACE OF DEATH: London, England

Best Known For

Edmund Spenser was one of the greatest poets of Elizabethan England, as evidenced by his masterwork, The Faerie Queene.