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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

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The volume gathers shorter lyrics, elegies, allegories, translations, and occasional pieces that reflect on worldly transience, artistic vocation, and social concerns. Several complaint poems mourn ruined cities and vanished fame, while pastoral and fable-like narratives mix moral satire with mythic imagery. Translations of continental sonnets and visions appear alongside original sequences of love poems and nuptial odes, plus occasional hymns, epigrams, and a whimsical insect tale. Throughout, meditation on time, memory, and poetic duty alternates with praise of patrons and ironic commentary on human vanity, producing a varied collection of lyric, narrative, and didactic strains.

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Title: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Author: Edmund Spenser

Editor: Francis James Child

Release date: January 1, 2004 [eBook #10602]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
EDMUND SPENSER

VOLUME V.

M.DCCC.LX.