FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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The Faerie Queene
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Epithalamion
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Amoretti
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The Shepherd’s Calendar
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser’s first major poetic work, published in 1579. In emulation of Virgil’s first work, the Eclogues, Spenser wrote this series of pastorals at the commencement of his career. However, Spenser’s models were rather the Renaissance eclogues of Mantuanus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spenser’s first important publication, The Shepheardes Calender (1579 or 1580), is more concerned with the bishops and affairs of the English church than is any of his later work.
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: -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-5: -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.