Curated OER
Spenser, Shakespeare, and the "Blazon": Lesson 4
Students discuss the meaning and tone of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. In this sonnets instructional activity, students compare Spenser's sonnets to Shakespeare's. Students discuss specific words that add to the humor in Shakespeare's...
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.