The Shepheardes Calender (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- First Published: 1579
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Pastoral
- Time of Work: 1500’s
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Colin Clout, Hobbinol, Thenot, Cuddie
- Genres: Poetry, Pastoral, Eclogue
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Rural or country life, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Gods or goddesses, Sixteenth century, Shepherds, Seasons
- Locales: England
The Story:
January. Colin, forlorn and rejected by his beloved Rosalind, compared his mood with the wintry landscape:
Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted,
Art made a mirror to behold my plight:
Whilome thy fresh spring flowrd, and after hasted
Thy summer proud with daffadillies dight,
And now is come thy winters stormy state,
Thy mantle marred wherein thou maskedst late.
At the end of this poem, Colin broke his shepherd’s pipes and resolved to write no more poetry.
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