The Lyric Poetry of Spenser (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- First Published: 1595
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Beauty, Christianity, Sixteenth century, Weddings
Critical Evaluation:
The best of Edmund Spenser’s lyric poetry, his sonnets, wedding songs, and his hymns, were all products of the years during which he was preparing his great epic romance, THE FAERIE QUEENE, for publication, and they reveal him at the height of his powers. He had in his earlier years mastered many verse forms and experimented with a variety of subjects in his collection of pastoral poems, THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDAR, in the melancholy laments on mutability adapted from French and Italian sources in THE RUINES OF TIME, the VISIONS OF...
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