ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Gabriel Harvey, (born 1550?, Saffron Walden, Essex, Eng.-died 1630), English writer and friend of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser; the latter celebrated their friendship in The Shepheardes Calender (1579) through the characters of Hobbinol (Harvey) and Colin Clout (Spenser).

Detailed explanation-2: -Most important for Spenser’s literary career, however, was his close friendship with Gabriel Harvey, a professor of rhetoric who served initially as his mentor and ultimately as his literary promoter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spenser was called “the Poet’s Poet” by Charles Lamb, and was admired by John Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Alfred Tennyson and others.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.