
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-02-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
d. 1912
Known for lively retellings of Spenser for younger readers and clear popular history of the French Revolution, this Scottish writer moved comfortably between literature and history. Her surviving books suggest a gift for making large subjects feel approachable.
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1551–1599
Best known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene, this major English Renaissance poet helped shape how later writers thought about allegory, music, and poetic form. His work mixes courtly praise, moral struggle, and vivid fantasy in a way that still feels rich and strange today.
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