ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edmund Spenser’s most celebrated allegorical work “Faerie Queene” is incomplete. It is modelled on Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso”, but it has strong moral message. “The Faerie Queene” was planned to be composed in twenty-four books but Edmund Spenser could not complete it.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first was Complaints, published in 1591, which was a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones. In 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion, which contains eighty-eight sonnets commemorating his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle.

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: -Largely self-contained, Book I can be understood to be its own miniature epic. The Redcrosse Knight and his lady Una travel together as he fights the monster Errour, then travel separately after the wizard Archimago tricks the Redcrosse Knight into thinking that Una is unchaste using a false dream.