Spenser
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Sixteenth-century English writer who criticized Irish fosterage and gossipred as anomalies.
It is classed, with Gossipred, as one of the anomalies or curses of Ireland by all her English critics, from Giraldus Cambrensis in the twelfth century to Spenser in the sixteenth.
Law in a Free State
English poet named as one of the hypothetical shipwrecked crew.
Shipwrecked on a desert island well tenanted by wild beasts, who would be the fittest in the following crew—Socrates, Seneca, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Sykes (the world-renowned Bill)?