FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem is unfinished: Spenser’s original plan was for 12 books, but we have just seven, the last being incomplete. The first three books were published in 1590 and the second three in 1596.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Faerie Queene is divided into six books, each one dedicated to a specific virtue: holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy.
Detailed explanation-3: -This sonnet appears to describe a break in his relationship with his wife and how he is left astray(lost) waiting for her forgiveness. Spencer uses the analogy of a ship losing its way during a storm to convey the idea of the separation between him and his wife.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser, (born 1552/53, London, England-died January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language.