Short answers, pulled from the story.
Edmund Spenser is best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic allegorical poem celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Queen Elizabeth I. The first three books were published in 1590 and a second set of three books in 1596; Spenser intended twelve books in total, so the poem remains incomplete.
Edmund Spenser was born around 1552 in East Smithfield, London. He was probably the son of John Spenser, a journeyman clothmaker, though his exact birth date remains uncertain.
Spenser went to Ireland in July 1580 as secretary to Arthur Grey, the 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, the newly appointed Lord Deputy. When Grey was recalled to England, Spenser remained, acquiring estates in the Munster Plantation, including his main property at Kilcolman in North Cork.
The Spenserian stanza is a verse form Spenser invented for The Faerie Queene. It consists of eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth line in iambic hexameter, called an Alexandrine, with a distinctive interlocking rhyme scheme.
Edmund Spenser died on the 13th of January 1599 in London, at the age of forty-six, shortly after being driven from his Kilcolman estate during the Nine Years' War. Ben Jonson claimed he died "for want of bread", but Spenser had a government-authorised payment and was owed his royal pension, making that claim doubtful.
In A View of the Present State of Irelande, written in 1596, Spenser argued that Ireland could never be fully controlled by England unless its indigenous language and customs were destroyed, by violence if necessary. The pamphlet circulated in manuscript during his lifetime and was not published until the mid-17th century because of its inflammatory content.