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1. 1. Edmund Spenser's Poetry

   

   A collected body of Elizabethan verse that ranges from heroic allegory and courtly romance to pastoral eclogues and intimate sonnet sequences, meditating on virtue, love, national identity, and the tensions between public duty and private feeling. Notable for formal inventiveness—including a distinctive nine-line stanza—archaic diction, and vivid natural and mythic imagery, the poems blend moral seriousness and imaginative play, using allegory and lyrical precision to shape narratives and lyrics that exerted a lasting influence on English poetry.

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