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Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 75
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English Renaissance poet who is famously known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene. Following this he produced a collection of sonnets titled Amoretti and Epithalamion which was published in 1595. The volume consists of 89 sonnets; a series of short poems in his Amoretti collection, and an Epithalamion portraying his courtship and marriage to his second wife Elizabeth Boyle.
Spenser is considered one of the greatest poets in the English Language and is recognized for creating his own unique verse form which is used in many of his works. Though highly influenced by the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Roman poet Ovid, some have argued that Spenser's individual style of writing stems from a lack of comprehension of the classics.