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eBook
University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Renascence Editions: The Faerie Queene [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596) prepared from The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser (London 1882).
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Handout
Luminarium

Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485 1603)

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
Luminarium

Luminarium: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 1586)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Luminarium

Luminarium: Edmund Spenser (1552 1599)

For Students 9th - 10th
This Edmund Spenser site features links to Spenser quotes, a biography, essays, and scholarly articles written as well as selected poems.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Edmund Spenser

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided by the University of Toronto. Index of poetry of Edmund Spenser, with links to each. Many poems include explanatory notes.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Article
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
Literary analysis of Johnson's writings in relation to Edmund Spenser. Features extensive notes and bibliographical info.
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Spenserian Stanza

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This definition is complete and contains hyperlinks to related terms, as well as an example.
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Website
Sacred Text Archive

"Stories From the Faerie Queene" by Mary Macleod

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Other

Goucher College: English 211: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion"

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Poetry of Spenser: Spenser's Family

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Knight in the Social Organism

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the knight in the social organism of Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene." From The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Spenser Online: Edmund Spenser: Biography

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Biographical text on Edmund Spenser provides details of Spencers life and accomplishments as a poet and scholar.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Glossary of Literary Theory: Christian Humanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief description of what Christian humanism was.
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eBook
Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Edmund Spenser

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of four sonnets from Spenser's "Amoretti" and links to five others.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Edmund Spenser

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Edmund Spenser

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Edmund Spenser.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Spenser

For Students 9th - 10th
(1552-1559) English poet of the Elizabethan age.