What is Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser about?
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What is Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser about?
Spenser and Ireland:
Although Spenser was English and is known for being one of the most famous English poets, he spent a fair amount of time in Ireland as well. He originally went to Ireland with Arthur Grey who had just been appointed the Lord Deputy. Spenser and Walter Raleigh served with Grey in Ireland during the Siege of Smerwick Massacre.
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View this answer''Sonnet 30'' is a part of the larger sonnet cycle Amoretti, so we can be sure that the poem is about Spenser's journey to woo and marry Elizabeth...
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Chapter 8 / Lesson 9Edmund Spenser was an English poet who produced some of the most renowned works of poetry found in the English language during the Elizabethan period. His Amoretti Sonnets contains eighty-eight sonnets commemorating his courtship with Elizabeth Boyle, his second wife. Learn about Spenser and his Amoretti Sonnets with summaries and analysis and understand how Petrarchan sonnets are structured differently than that of the Amoretti Sonnets.