"The Faerie Queene” writer (7)

I believe the answer is:

spenser

(Other definitions for spenser that I've seen before include "Elizabethan poet" , "Edmund -, Eng. poet" , "The Faerie Queene author" , "Edmund ---, Eliz. poet" , "He wrote" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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