Spenser Publishes the Faerie Queene
1590
Edmund Spenser printed the first three books of his enormous allegorical epic The Faerie Queene, celebrating Elizabeth as Gloriana and ransacking Arthurian romance for Protestant English myth. The queen gave him a pension of fifty pounds a year. Sir Philip Sidney had not lived to see English poetry gain such a monument.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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