FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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1568
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1579
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1597
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1585
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shepheardes Calender was Edmund Spenser’s first major poetic work, published in 1579.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The poetic aims of The Shepheardes Calender are multiple: Spenser seeks to recover a native voice, and to warn his nation and his Queen of dangers to England and to the English Church from within and without. He seeks his own place in the affairs of his country, and a place among men of letters.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The correct answer is Twelve. Shepheardes Calender was written by Edmund Spenser and published in 1579. It was inspired by the eclogues of Virgil and dedicated to Sir Philip Sydney. Eclogues are short pastoral dramatic poems.