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Edmund (c.1552–99) An English poet. The Shepheardes Calender and The Faerie Queene are his best known works. In the latter, he invented a nine-line stanza known as "Spenserian."
C. R. L. Fletcher and Emery Walker, eds. Historical Portraits, Richard II to Henry Wriothesley, 1400-1600, Vol. I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909) 167. (From the portrait at Pembroke College, Cambridge.)
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