Spenser’s first major work, published in 1579 and dedicated to Philip Sidney, follows the shepherd Colin Clout and his companions through the twelve months of the year. The eclogues move between love-lament, praise of Queen Elizabeth as Eliza, debates on religion and the place of poetry, and an elegy, in this 1898 edition decorated by Walter Crane.
The poem that announced a new English poetry in the Elizabethan age, and a delight for lovers of the pastoral. Download the free EPUB.