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Edmund Spenser
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Illustration from an edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Spenser, Edmund
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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Learn about the 15th earl of Desmond rebellion against the English crown and the formation of the Munster Plantation
A discussion of English colonization of the vast estates in Munster, Ireland, that...
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Edmund Spenser, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Pembroke...
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Illustration from an edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
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Spenser, Edmund
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