ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser’s The Ruines of Time (1591) is no light read (even by Spenser’s standards), but at points it achieves an almost sublime weirdness.

Detailed explanation-2: -In The Ruines of Time, the poem that opens his Complaints (1591), Spenser offers reflections on the evanescent nature of all worldly things, death, and the creation of new life that may be found in poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spenser, as a poet, has tried to revive language and grammar of Chaucer. There are about eighty percent of Saxon words in his works. His mixture of old English words with classical Syntax, adapted from Chaucerian metres, has a remarkable beautiful affect. His greatest contribution to verse is the Spenserian stanza.