Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

Name: Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
Author: Spenser, Edmund

Spenser, Edmund

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Knights and knighthood -- Poetry; Virtues -- Poetry

Birth of Edmund Spenser (about)   1552  Birth of Sir Walter Raleigh
                                  1553  Death of Edward VI; Mary crowned.
                                  1554  Mary marries Philip of Spain.
                                  1558  Death of Mary; Elizabeth crowned.
                                  1560  Charles IX, king of France.
                                  1568  Council of Trent.
_Visions of Bellay_, published,   1569
_Sonnets of Petrarch_, published, 1569
Enters Pembroke Hall, Cambridge,  1569
                                  1572  Gregory XIII, Pope of Rome.
                                  1572  Massacre of St. Batholomew.
                                  1574  Henry III, king of France.
Received M.A., leaves Cambridge,  1576  Rudolph II, emperor.
Leaves Lancashire,                1578  Elizabeth aids the Netherlands.
Visits Lord Leicester,            1579
_The Shepheards Calender_,        1579
Goes to Ireland,                  1580  Massacre of Smerwick.
                                  1581  Tasso's _Jersalem Delivered_.
Lord Grey's return to England,    1582
                                  1584  Assassination of William the
                                          Silent.
                                  1585  Sixtus V, Pope. Drake's voyage.
                                  1585  Leicester goes to the Netherlands.
                                  1586  Death of Sir Philip Sidney.
First marriage (before)           1587  Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
Clerk to the Council of
  Munster,                        1588  Defeat of Spanish Armada.
                                          Death of Leicester.
Visits England with Raleigh,      1589  Assassination of Henry III;
                                          Henry IV crowned.
_The Faerie Queene_, Books I,     1590  Shakespeare's _Love's
  II, III,                                Labour's Lost_.
_Mother Hubberds Tale, Tears of   1591  Shakespeare's _Comedy of Errors,
  the Muses, Ruines of Time,              Henry VI_.
  Daphnaida, The Visions_         1591  Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_, trans.
                                  1593  Shakespeare's _Midsummer
                                          Night's Dream_.
                                  1593  _Richard III._
Second marriage,                  1594  Shakespeare's _Richard II_.
_Colin Clout's Come Home Again_,  1595  Shakespeare's _King John_.
_Amoretti, Epithalamion, Hymns_   1595  Johnston's _Seven Champions
                                          of Christendom._
_Astrophel, Prothalamion,_        1596  Shakespeare's _Merchant of Venice_.
_The Faerie Queene_, Books I-VI   1596  Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his
                                          Humour._
_Vision of the Present State of   1598  Edict of Nantes,
  Ireland_                                Philip III crowned.
Death of Spenser,                 1599  Revolt of Irish. Expedition

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Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

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