ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
A
The Faerie Queene
B
The shepheaedes Calendar
C
Complaints
D
Colin Clouts come home again
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem also set the groundwork for Spenser’s best known work The Faerie Queene. The Shepheardes Calender was also crucial to the naturalization of the English language and the introduction of vocabulary along with literary techniques.

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 earliest important work of Spenser (1579), dedicated to Sidney.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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