FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Philip Sidney
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Boyle
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Queen Elizabeth
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Chaucer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Then in 1579, a young poet named Edmund Spenser published The Shepheardes Calender, a series of twelve poems using a variety of verse forms, and a new age of English poetry was born. Significantly, The Shepheardes Calender was dedicated to Philip Sidney.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The earliest important work of Spenser (1579), dedicated to Sidney.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edmund Spenser’s “Aprill” eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender (1579) offers an elaborate portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen of England who ruled the country between 1558-1603.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature.