ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Spenserian sonnet is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

Detailed explanation-2: -His Amoretti, a collection of 89 sonnets, was written in 1594 in anticipation of his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle that year. Spenser also varied his sonnets from the others by using his own rhyme scheme.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spenser’s sonnets deal largely with the idea of love. Up until Sonnet 67, the sonnets primarily focus on the frustration of unreturned romantic desires.

Detailed explanation-4: -Petrarchan. Shakespearean. Spenserian. Miltonic. 16-Aug-2021