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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England.
As a child, the English poet Edmund Spenser attended the Merchant Taylors’ grammar school, where he was enrolled as a "poor boy." During his time there, his studies focused primarily on Latin, alongside some Greek, Hebrew, and music.1