Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene. Edwin Greenlaw was head of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University and the former dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina.

Once more we are in debt to the great and gracious scholar who has done more than anyone in our century to expedite the study of Spenser's poetry. Journal of English and Germanic Philology The usefulness of the compilation and the skill with which it has been put together will be remarked continually by scholars. Times Literary Supplement