1 JANUARY 1591: LETTER to Helena, Marchioness of Northampton

The poet Edmund Spenser writes to Helena, Marchioness of Northampton dedicating his poem “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” to her.

Source

Bell’s Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 1788.

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