Which English Renaissance poet wrote the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'?

The English Renaissance poet who wrote the epic poem The Faerie Queene was Edmund Spenser.

Spenser’s poem was conceived as a vast allegory about virtue, with knights embodying moral qualities as they encounter monsters, temptations, and political dangers. The Faerie Queene herself is commonly associated with Queen Elizabeth I, to whom the work was dedicated, while the poem’s fictional world draws on Arthurian romance and classical epic traditions.

The first three books appeared in 1590, followed by three more in 1596. Spenser originally planned twelve books, but the surviving poem is incomplete. Its famous Spenserian stanza contains eight pentameter lines followed by a longer Alexandrine line, creating a distinctive nine-line form that Spenser developed for the poem.

Shakespeare was a contemporary playwright and poet, Milton wrote Paradise Lost in the seventeenth century, and Philip Sidney wrote Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella. None of them wrote The Faerie Queene.