Edmund Spenser

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And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Going for it

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Shepheardes Calender

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1579 1570s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "Julye." The Shepheardes Calender. London, 1579.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "The Shepheardes Calender." The Shorter Poems, edited by Richard A. Mccabe. Penguin Classics, 2000.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Rest

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Faerie Queene

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1590 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, edited by Carol V. Kaske. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, bk. 1 canto 9, st. 40.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well exposed, as by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Gentleness Manners

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Faerie Queene

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1596 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1596, bk. 6, canto 3.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos, edited by Andrew Hadfield and Abraham Stoll. Hackett Publishing Company, 2007, bk. 6, canto 3.