S The Shepheard's Calender Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes Edmund Spenser

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The Shepheard's Calender

Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes

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The Shepheard's Calender by Edmund Spenser consists of twelve aeglogues proportioned to the twelve months, with pictures and other devices by Walter Crane. The prose discussion describes the choice of old and unfamiliar words as an effort to restore natural English words long out of use.

A speaker mourns Tityrus, called the god of shepherds, and remembers the tales told while their sheep fed safely around them. The speaker wishes for some of the knowledge once held in the dead shepherd's learned head, hoping to teach the trees to shed tears. The glossary explains unfamiliar vocabulary, supplying meanings such as daunted, every day and although.

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) was an English poet whose Faerie Queene is one of the longest and greatest poems in the English language and a landmark of Elizabethan literature.