Spenser (1879)

Biography of the Elizabethan English poet Edmund Spenser, first published in 1879. The book begins: "Spenser marks a beginning in English literature. He is the first Englishman who, in that great division of our history which dates from the Reformation, attempted and achieved a poetical work of the highest order." According to Wikipedia: "Richard Christopher Church (25 April 1815 – 6 December 1890) was an English churchman and writer."