ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser’s famous collection of sonnets, Amoretti, is a series of love sonnets dedicated to Elizabeth Boyle, the lady of his dreams whom he pursues and eventually marries in 1594.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century. The cycle describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spenser is particularly famous for the development of the Spenserian sonnet, as well as his famous sonnet sequence Amoretti and his Epithalamion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti, first published in 1595, is a sonnet cycle, which describes the poet’s love for, courtship of, and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. The series of sonnet are unique in that they do not end with love being unrequited, but rather with the resolution of the poet’s love in marriage.

Detailed explanation-5: -’ The Amoretti sonnets were written to Elizabeth Boyle, Spenser’s second wife, during their courtship. Because the sonnets were all written to one woman, this was unusual.