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Calidore, Sir
Calidore, Sir,the Knight of Courtesy, the hero of Bk VI of Spenser's Faerie Queene . He pursues and chains the Blatant Beast . One of Keats's earliest poems, the fragment ‘Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake’ ( 1816 ), was inspired by him.
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