The Shepheardes Calender

Name: The Shepheardes Calender
Author: Edmund Spenser

by Edmund Spenser

Early pastoral poem cycle tracking the seasons and love through shepherd's yearlong journey

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Edmund Spenser

English poet whose The Faerie Queene is the longest epic poem in the English language, an allegorical celebration of Queen Elizabeth I and Protestant virtues. He also invented the Spenserian sonnet form.

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