I . Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (15521599) was born in London. He received a good education first at Merchant Taylors School and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He left Cambridge in 1576 and went to the north of England, where he fell in love and recorded his laments over the loss of Rosalind in The Shepheardes Calender. Later he met Sir Philip Sidney and started a friendship with him, which sprang from a common enthusiasm for literature. In 1580, through Leicesters inf
