ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Colin Clout is a shepherd who is in love with a woman who does not love him back. He breaks his musical pipe in frustration and falls into a deep depression over the woman who does not return his love.