University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Renascence Editions: The Faerie Queene [Pdf]
Complete text of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) prepared from The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser (London 1882).
Luminarium
Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485 1603)
Luminarium offers a student resource for learning about the authors of the English Renaissance period. Contains links to over 25 different authors from the period which contain their biographies, bibliographies, and text to some of their...
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 1586)
This site is a portal to biographical information about the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney, texts of his works, articles and essays about his works, and a list of other resources.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Edmund Spenser (1552 1599)
This Edmund Spenser site features links to Spenser quotes, a biography, essays, and scholarly articles written as well as selected poems.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of Edmund Spenser
This site is provided by the University of Toronto. Index of poetry of Edmund Spenser, with links to each. Many poems include explanatory notes.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Edmund Spenser and his sonnets. It features two of his sonnets: Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 75, known as the Fire and Ice poems and a worksheet for them. It also offers links to Spenser's biography, Amoretti and...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress
Literary analysis of Johnson's writings in relation to Edmund Spenser. Features extensive notes and bibliographical info.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Spenserian Stanza
This definition is complete and contains hyperlinks to related terms, as well as an example.
Sacred Text Archive
"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod
This is a Victorian era retelling of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queen." Useful for getting a grip on the plot, or for comparison of language.
Other
Goucher College: English 211: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion"
This is a discription and literary analysis of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, a love poem composed of 89 sonnets, and "Epithalamion," a wedding song composed of 24 complex 18-line stanzas.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Poetry of Spenser: Spenser's Family
Brief biography of Spenser and his family, with links provided to the entire contents of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Readers can find additional information on Spenser there.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Knight in the Social Organism
Discussion of the knight in the social organism of Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene." From The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Spenser Online: Edmund Spenser: Biography
Biographical text on Edmund Spenser provides details of Spencers life and accomplishments as a poet and scholar.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Glossary of Literary Theory: Christian Humanism
Provides a brief description of what Christian humanism was.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: Edmund Spenser
Text of four sonnets from Spenser's "Amoretti" and links to five others.
Curated OER
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser section on the Luminarium Renaissance site. Links to biography, list of Spenser's works, critical essays and articles, and a bibliography of other works.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Spenser
(1552-1559) English poet of the Elizabethan age.