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The Library 2005 6(1):30-75; doi:10.1093/library/6.1.30
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‘Secretary to the Lord Grey Lord Deputie here’: Edmund Spenser's Irish Papers

Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher

The poet Edmund Spenser (?1552-1599) spent most of his adult life pursuing a career as a secretary and clerk in the Elizabethan government of Ireland. While his experience in that country has by many long been considered an indispensable context for the interpretation of his poetry, and particularly The Faerie Queene, our understanding of the manuscript sources that document his career remains incomplete. This article corrects and substantially augments the catalogue of known Spenserian documents, provides a descriptive assessment of their contents, and considers their palaeographical and other features in an effort to improve our understanding of the Lord Deputy's secretariat, and of Spenser's place within it, in the years 1580–82. Spenser emerges from this bio-bibliographical account as a busy administrator, close to the centre of power in Dublin, but by no means in the intimate confidence of his New English masters


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