Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Book 1
Edited with Introduction and Notes by George Armstrong Wauchope.
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m was received by the
court and all England with unprecedented applause.
The next year while still in London, Spenser collected his early poems and issued them under the title of Complaints_. In this volume were the Ruins of Time_ and the Tears of the Muses, two poems on the indifference shown to literature before 1580, and the remarkable Mother Hubberds Tale, a bitter satire on the army, the court, the church, and politics. His Daphnaida was also published about the same time. On his return to Ireland he gave a charming picture of life at Kilcolman Castle, with an account of his visit to the court, in Colin Clout's Come Home Again. The story of the long and desperate courtship of his second love, Elizabeth, whom he wedded in 1594, is told in the Amoretti, a sonnet sequence full of passion and tenderness. His rapturous wedding ode, the Epithalamion, which is, by general consent, the most glorious bridal song in our language, and the most perf
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