LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Fairie Queen
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Country Seasons
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Shepherd’s Calendar
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shepheardes Calender, published anonymously in 1579 by Hugh Singleton, consists of twelve eclogues named for the twelve months, comprising together a year symbolic, in its turning of the seasons, of the whole of human life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Shepheardes Calender is a poem that consists of twelve eclogues. Each eclogue is named after a different month, which represents the turning of seasons. An eclogue is a short pastoral poem that is in the form of a dialogue or soliloquy.
Detailed explanation-3: -About 1579 he came to know Sir Philip Sidney; his first significant work, The Shepheardes Calendar, published under a pseudonym in 1579 and consisting of 12 “ecologues” (one for each month of the year), was dedicated to Sidney.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most obvious themes of The Shepheardes Calender include love, the appreciation of poetry, and political and religious matters that were topical at the time the work was published in 1579. Spenser’s larger theme is the invocation of a quasi-mythic English landscape of purity and innocence.