Taking literary “style” in its strictest sense, as word choice and syntax, consider what C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) wrote of his beloved Edmund Spenser: “His work is one, like a growing thing, with ...

Drawing from The Faerie Queene (1590) an epic poem by Edmund Spenser, the reverse depicts a young and fair Queen Victoria walking alongside a lion. It’s estimated to sell for 250,000 CHF ($284,000).

Edmundo Sosa entered Tuesday night having played 953 professional baseball games. None of them had ever been in the outfield, not for the Phillies or in the minor leagues. But with Philadelphia ...

Princeton professor John Bonner, who has been researching cellular slime molds for decades, named "acrasin" for the witch in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, who lured men to her side and then ...

Enjoy the calming power of classical music, with soft piano, choral, and orchestral pieces to create a peaceful atmosphere for relaxation. Show more Take a break and let the gentle sounds of ...

The Traveller Collection includes examples of Wyon’s Una and the Lion £5 coins, struck in 1839, which show the young Queen Victoria as the calming, virtuous Una from Edmund Spenser’s 16th ...

Edmund Spenser was the greatest Elizabethan poet – and here ‘greatest’ means not just ‘best’ but also ‘biggest’. From 1579 he published poems which were designed to show that he was the heir of both ...

It’s a universally familiar phrase. Ask any English-speaking adult or child, and they will recognize the label “goody two-shoes” as derogatory shorthand for an insufferable prude—but few ...

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With $10,000 in his bank, he wagered $2,000. The clue read, “Henry Purcell’s opera, The Fairy Queen, isn’t based on Edmund Spenser’s poem but on this Shakespeare play.” Weikert answered ...