“Queene is either Queen Elizabeth or Glory 8a person. There are
tvelve knight representing diffrent vty ad King Arthur i
senemanliness The knight’ adventures are the bass hr an
allegory bu he not clear. The greats of he work snot in is
{ought or in its story. TC the magi fling in the ats the
wonderful muse ofthe verse, the Beauty of the sound, Few people
tow read the whole things perhaps too much sweetnes at net is
‘more than the mind an pti ean bea,
‘Spenser invented a special metre for The Baie Quen, ‘The
vere fas nin fines; of thee the lst has six et, the athes fe
The rye pln is aabbebe, This vers, the “Spemerian Stan
js july famous and has ofen been uted since, Here an example
Long thus she erated rough deserts wie,
By which she thou her wand'ring Koh should pas,
Yet never show of iving wiht eped™
‘Till that at leg ake found the trode? geass
In which the track of people’ Foti was,
Under the seep foto mountain hoat®
‘The same se follows lat tae has
Adama” spi slon-foting hee bene,
That on her shoulders sad a pot of water bore
Spenser matted Elizabeth Bovle in 1594 when he was over forty:
“The joy that he fl exprewed in Epaalamn (1995) an alos
perfect mariage sng. His Prealanio (159), write a honour of
the double marge of the daughter ofthe Earl of Wore,
contains the repeated fine, Sweet Thames run sf ill Tend ny
Song. Spenser abo wrote B sonnets which were pushed 1595
Sith (he Eptalamion under the te, Amore
The Elvabethan age produced 2. murprsing flow of lyin,
Lyric poeay gives expresion othe poe’ own thoughts and elings,
land for this Yeason we tend to piture the lyre poet as rather
ax nny ih eae en see propa ae in
ons (a can ts Re Pe