The Shepherds' Calendar

ISBN: 9781331759805 出版年：2016 页码：191 Edmund Spenser Forgotten Books

This little book of music to the ear and to the mind was published in the year 1579, as the work of a new poet, introduced to the world by his friend E. K. An old colle e com anion, Edmund Kirke. The new poet was dmun Spenser, then twenty-six years, now three hundred and thirty-six years old and ever young. Edmund S ehser was of a Lancashire family, settled at Hurstwoo near Burnley, and in other parts of the same district. A. Lettice Nowell married a Lawrence Spenser, and we find aid to the education of Spenser the poet in a ms. Of the spending of the money of Robert Nowell. The aid shows that he was being educated at Merchant Taylors' School. A John Spenser was described in 1566 as a free journeyman in the art and mystery of cloth-making, at that time in the service of Nicholas Peele, shearman, of Bow Lane.