FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Edward
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Jonathan
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Immanuel
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Immerito
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -’ Under the modest pseudonym of ‘Immerito, ’ the author dedicated in a short poem this series of twelve dialogues or eclogues to his friend Sir Philip Sidney. No mention was anywhere made of Spenser’s name.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.