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A cycle of twelve pastoral eclogues mapped to the months stages rural conversations and lyrical monologues that probe love, poetic practice, moral questions, and contemporary affairs. The poems alternate songlike passages, disputations, and occasional satire, drawing on classical pastoral conventions while reviving archaic English idiom and rustic imagery. Seasonal change structures the sequence, linking natural cycles to shifts in feeling and opinion, and an epilogue frames the collection as a modest literary offering addressed to patrons and readers.

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Title: The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes

Author: Edmund Spenser

Illustrator: Walter Crane

Release date: April 27, 2013 [eBook #42607]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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THE SHEPHEARD'S CALENDER:

TWELVE AEGLOGUES PROPORTIONABLE TO THE TWELVE MONETHES

ENTITLED TO THE NOBLE AND VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MOST WORTHY OF ALL TITLES BOTH OF LEARNING & CHIVALRY, MAISTER PHILIP SIDNEY.

BY EDMUND SPENSER:
NEWLY ADORNED
WITH TWELVE PICTURES AND OTHER DEVICES
BY
WALTER CRANE.

LONDON & NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS
MDCCCXCVIII