ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He believes true beauty is what’s on the inside like intelligence and virtue, which is what he loves about her. God gave us true beauty which will never fade no matter how long a person lives but outer beauty will eventually fade through untimely age.

Detailed explanation-2: -In The Ruines of Time, the poem that opens his Complaints (1591), Spenser offers reflections on the evanescent nature of all worldly things, death, and the creation of new life that may be found in poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sometime between 1587 and 1589, Spenser acquired his main estate at Kilcolman, near Doneraile in North Cork. He later bought a second holding to the south, at Rennie, on a rock overlooking the river Blackwater in North Cork. Its ruins are still visible today.