FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Bishop of Rockfield, Carl of Leicester
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Bishop of Rochester, Earl of Leicester
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Queen Elizabeth, Earl of Leicester
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Albert Cleetus, Earth Wormulus
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shepheardes Calender is Edmund Spenser’s first major work, which appeared in 1579. It emulates Virgil’s Eclogues of the first century BCE and the Eclogues of Mantuan by Baptista Mantuanus, a late medieval, early renaissance poet. An eclogue is a short pastoral poem that is in the form of a dialogue or soliloquy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first book follows the adventures of the Redcross Knight (or “Red Cross Knight"), the knight of Holiness. Redcross is on a mission from the Faerie Queene Gloriana to lead his companion, Una, back to her homeland where he is to defeat a mighty dragon that is terrorizing the people.
Detailed explanation-3: -The English essayist Charles Lamb described Spenser as ‘’the poet’s poet” because his work was technically accomplished and was greatly admired by other writers of his age and after. Spenser is most famous for writing his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene, though he also produced a wide array of other literary works.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first was Complaints, published in 1591, which was a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones. In 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion, which contains eighty-eight sonnets commemorating his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle.