Spenser spent a significant portion of his adult life serving as a colonial official in which country?
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Correct answer: Ireland
Spenser lived in Ireland as a secretary and landholder. His experience there heavily influenced his poetry and led him to write the prose tract 'A View of the Present State of Ireland.'
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- Which of these works is Spenser's elegy for the death of Sir Philip Sidney?
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