A View of the Present State of Irelande
1596 pamphlet by Edmund Spenser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A View of the Present State of Irelande is a 1596 pamphlet by English writer, poet and soldier Edmund Spenser. The text is written in the form of a dialogue between two Englishmen, Eudox and Irenius; the former has never been to Ireland, while the latter has recently returned from the island while it was in the midst of the Tudor conquest. Through the text, Spenser argued for employing scorched earth tactics to subdue Irish resistance to the conquest and criticised Ireland's culture, religion, language and legal system. The text was never published during Spenser's lifetime, though it was posthumously published by James Ware in 1633.