Succeeding John Skelton as poet laureate, his greatest achievement includes characters like Britomart, Gloriana, and the Red Cross Knight.  
He advocated somewhat seriously for the destruction of Irish culture and language, going so far to suggest mass executions, in his pamphlet A View of the Present State of Ireland.  Poems like "Virgil's Gnat" and "The Ruins of Time" appear in his Complaints, while collections like Prothalamion and Epithalamion, which appeared with his sonnet sequence Amoretti, made his name.  Succeeding John Skelton as poet laureate, his greatest achievement includes characters like Britomart, Gloriana, and the Red Cross Knight.  For 10 points, identify this English poet who created The Faerie Queen.
He advocated somewhat seriously for the destruction of Irish culture and language, going so far to suggest mass executions, in his pamphlet
Edmund {Spenser}