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Edmund Spenser
English poet and author of 'The Faerie Queene'.
Core Belief
"Spenser believes in the power of poetry to shape virtuous and noble individuals. He also believes in the importance of allegory and historical fiction as vehicles for conveying moral lessons."
Worldview
Spenser sees the world as a place of both beauty and danger, where virtue must constantly struggle against vice.
Personality
Spenser is depicted as a learned and imaginative poet who is deeply concerned with moral and virtuous behavior. He is also aware of the potential for misinterpretation and seeks to clarify his intentions through his prefatory letter.
In Their Own Words
"knowing how doubtfully all allegories may be construed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled the _Faery Queene_, being a continued allegory, or darke conceit, I have thought good...to discover unto you the general intention and meaning..."
"The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline..."
"In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land."
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