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    Faerie Queene Book VII: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
    Faerie Queene Book VII: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
    Faerie Queene Book VII: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
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    Faerie Queene Book VII: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

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    One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552. He was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender, his first major work. Edmund journeyed to Ireland in July 1580, in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. His time included the terrible massacre at the Siege of Smerwick. The epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is acknowledged as Edmund’s masterpiece. The first three books were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were published in 1596. Indeed the reality is that Spenser, through his great talents, was able to move Poetry in a different direction. It led to him being called a Poet’s Poet and brought rich admiration from Milton, Raleigh, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and Lord Tennyson, among others. Spenser returned to Ireland and in 1591, Complaints, a collection of poems that voices complaints in mournful or mocking tones was published. In 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion. The volume contains eighty-nine sonnets. In the following year Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled A View of the Present State of Ireland, a highly inflammatory argument for the pacification and destruction of Irish culture. On January 13th 1599 Edmund Spenser died at the age of forty-six. His coffin was carried to his grave in Westminster Abbey by other poets, who threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave followed with many tears.

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    Release dateAug 17, 2015
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    Faerie Queene Book VII: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

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      Faerie Queene Book VII - Edmund Spenser

      The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

      Book VII. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

      TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITIE

      WHICH, BOTH FOR FORME AND MATTER, APPEARE TO BE PARCELL OF SOME FOLLOWING BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE UNDER THE LEGEND OF CONSTANCIE

      NEVER BEFORE IMPRINTED

      One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552.

      He was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge.  In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender, his first major work. 

      Edmund journeyed to Ireland in July 1580, in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. His time included the terrible massacre at the Siege of Smerwick.

      The epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is acknowledged as Edmund’s masterpiece. The first three books were published in 1590, and a second set of three books were published in 1596. 

      Indeed the reality is that Spenser, through his great talents, was able to move Poetry in a different direction.  It led to him being called a Poet’s Poet and brought rich admiration from Milton, Raleigh, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and Lord Tennyson, among others. 

      Spenser returned to Ireland and in 1591, Complaints, a collection of poems that voices complaints in mournful or mocking tones was published.

      In 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion. The volume contains eighty-nine sonnets.

      In the following year Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled A View of the Present State of Ireland, a highly inflammatory argument for the pacification and destruction of Irish culture.

      On January 13th 1599 Edmund Spenser died at the age of forty-six.  His coffin was carried to his grave in Westminster Abbey by other poets, who threw many pens and pieces of poetry into his grave followed with many tears.

      Index of Contents

      Book VII. Two Cantos of Mutabilitie

      Canto VI

      Canto VII

      Canto VIII

      Edmund Spenser – A Short Biography

      Edmund Spenser – A Concise Bibliography

      CANTO VI

      Proud Change (not pleasd in mortall things

      Beneath the moone to raigne)

      Pretends, as well of gods as men,

      To be the soveraine.

      I

      What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele

      Of Change, the which all mortall things doth sway,

      But that therby doth find, and plainly feele,

      How Mutability in them doth play

      Her cruell sports, to many mens decay?        

      Which that to all may better yet appeare,

      I will rehearse that whylome I heard say,

      How she at first her selfe began to reare

      Gainst all the gods, and th’ empire sought from them to beare.

      II

      But first, here falleth fittest to unfold        

      Her antique race and linage ancient,

      As I have found it registred of old

      In Faery Land mongst records permanent.

      She was, to weet, a daughter by descent

      Of those old Titans that did whylome strive        

      With Saturnes sonne for heavens regiment;

      Whom though high Jove of Kingdome did deprive,

      Yet many of their stemme long after did survive.

      III

      And many of them afterwards obtain’d

      Great power of Jove, and high authority:        

      As Hecatè, in whose almighty hand

      He plac’t all rule and principality,

      To be by her disposed diversly,

      To gods and men, as she them list divide;

      And drad Bellona,

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