The author of this collection declares that “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” to open its 75th entry. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this collection of 89 poems written as a portrait of its author’s courtship with Elizabeth Boyle. This collection is often followed by its author’s longer poem Epithalamion.
ANSWER: Amoretti
[10m] The Amoretti are by this poet of The Shepheardes Calendar, as well as an epic poem whose allegory this poet explained as a “darke conceit” in a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh.
ANSWER: Edmund Spenser
[10e] Spenser’s The Faerie Queene was written as an allegory for this monarch. Raleigh was a favorite courtier of this monarch, who names the literary era spanning the latter half of the 16th century.
ANSWER: Elizabeth I [prompt on Elizabethan]
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