Edmund Spenser - List of Works

List of Works

• Iambicum Trimetrum
• 1569: Jan van der Noodt's A theatre for Worldlings, including poems translated into English by Spenser from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in London

• 1579: The Shepheardes Calender, published under the pseudonym "Immerito" (entered into the Stationers' Register in December)

1590:

• The Faerie Queene, Books 1–3

1591:

• Complaints, Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie (entered into the Stationer's Register in 1590), includes:
  • "The Ruines of Time"
  • "The Teares of the Muses"
  • "Virgil's Gnat"
  • "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale"
  • "Ruines of Rome: by Bellay"
  • "Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie"
  • "Visions of the worlds vanitie"
  • "The Visions of Bellay"
  • "The Visions of Petrarch"

1592:

• Axiochus, a translation of a pseudo-Platonic dialogue from the original Ancient Greek; published by Cuthbert Burbie; attributed to "Edw: Spenser" but the attribution is uncertain
• Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (published in London in January, according to one source; another source gives 1591 as the year)

1595:

• Amoretti and Epithalamion, containing:
  • "Amoretti"
  • "Epithalamion"
• Astrophel. A Pastorall Elegie vpon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.
• Colin Clouts Come home againe

1596:

• Four Hymns (poem)|Fowre Hymnes dedicated from the court at Greenwich; published with the second edition of Daphnaida
• Prothalamion
• The Faerie Queene, Books 4–6

Posthumous:

• 1609: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie published together with a reprint of The Fairie Queene
• 1611: First folio edition of Spenser's collected works
• 1633: A vewe of the present state of Irelande a prose treatise on the reformation of Ireland, first published in James Ware's Ancient Irish Chronicles (Spenser's work was entered into the Stationer's Register in 1598 and circulated in manuscript but not published until it was included in this work of Ware's)