Principal Works
"Epigrams" and "Sonets" [translator] (poetry) 1569; published in A Theatre for Worldlings
The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Twelve Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes (poetry) 1579
*Three Proper, and Wittie, Familiar Letters Lately Passed between Two Universitie Men: Touching the Earthquake in Aprill Last and Our English Reformed Versifying (letters) 1580
**The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues [Books I-III] (poetry) 1590
Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie (poetry) 1591
Amoretti and Epithalamion (poetry) 1595
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (poetry) 1595
*** The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues: The Second Part of The Faerie Queene, Containing the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes (poetry) 1596
Fowre Hymnes (poetry) 1596
Prothalamion; or a Spousall Verse (poetry) 1596
**** A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Irenœus (essay) 1633
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser. 10 vols, (poetry, essay, and letters) 1882-84
* This work includes letters written by Gabriel Harvey
**This work was not published in its entirety until 1609, when the "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie" were added.
*** This work includes a revision of the earlier The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues [Books I-III].
**** This work was written between 1595 and 1597.
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