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* * Part Two Ten Renaissance Writers 1. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) the most prominent humanist of his period/ Utopia (Land of Nowhere), which is the first real significant expression of the English humanist ideas. * * * * 2. Edmund Spencer (c.1552-1599) The Shepheardes Calender, which set the pastoral fashion in English literature, and ushered in the great period of English Lyrical poetry in the last two decades of the 16th century. His masterpiece :The Fairy Queen, only 6 books finished/Spencerian stanza/ The Spenceian Sonnet * * 3. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) A Defence of Poesy Arcadia