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Individual Works


The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596, 1609)


The Shepheardes Calender (1579)


Complaints. Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. (1591)


Daphnaïda. An Elegie vpon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. (1594)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882)


Colin Clouts Come home againe (1595)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882).
  • University of Virginia text (Trent, 1903).


Astrophel. A Pastorall Elegie vpon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. (1595)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882)


Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595)
  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882):
  • University of Virginia text (Trent, 1903)
  • Aeka Tatsuki's text (Scolar Press facsimile, 1968)
  • University of Toronto Epithalamion text


Fowre Hymnes (1596)


Prothalamion Or A Spousall Verse made by Edm. Spenser. In Honour of the Double mariage of the two Honorable & vertuous Ladies, the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katherine Somerset, Daughters to the Right Honourable the Earle of Worcester and espoused to the two worthie Gentlemen M. Henry Gilford, and M. William Peter Esquyers. (1596)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882)
  • University of Toronto text


Letters from Spenser to Gabriel Harvey, excerpted from Three Proper, and wittie, familiar Letters (1580) and Tvvo Other, very commendable Letters (1580)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882)


Other Poems


A vewe of the present state of Irelande (ca. 1598)

  • Renascence Editions text (Grosart, 1882)


Other Resources


  • Search Engine for The Faerie Queene designed by Matt Kozusko at the University of Georgia.


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