ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

EDMUND SPENSER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
He wrote love sonnets
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 was first published in 1609.

Detailed explanation-2: -Essentially, this sonnet presents the extreme ideal of romantic love: it never changes, it never fades, it outlasts death and admits no flaw. What is more, it insists that this ideal is the only love that can be called “true”-if love is mortal, changing, or impermanent, the speaker writes, then no man ever loved.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Shakespearean sonnets are considered among the most romantic poems ever written. It was the bard who kickstarted the modern love poetry movement with a collection of 154 love sonnets. You can still hear many of these on Valentine’s Day and in marriage ceremonies today.

Detailed explanation-4: -Technically, the sonnet is thought to have been invented in Italy by a thirteenth-century notary named Giacomo da Lentini, but the form was popularized by a fourteenth-century humanist scholar named Francesco Petrarca, usually anglicized as Petrarch.

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