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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Edmund Spenser
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(c.1552-99) A great English poet now more studied than read. His approach was essentially learned, in the manner of a Renaissance scholar. His first major work, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), is modelled on the pastoral poetry of Virgil, and The *Faerie Queene sets out to rival the Italian epics of Ariosto and Tasso. He lived most of his adult life in Ireland, where he acquired a large estate near Cork as part of the Elizabethan scheme to encourage English settlers.
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