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The 8 pages that link to Edmund Spenser, each with the reason it gives.

• Elizabethan eraBroader topic: The poem fused Protestant politics, classical learning, and praise of Elizabeth.

• John KeatsRelated: Spenser’s verse strongly influenced Keats’s early poetic style.

• Petrarchan sonnetRelated: Amoretti adapts Petrarchan conventions within a courtship that reaches marriage.

• Political allegoryRelated: His poem linked chivalric figures and adventures to Elizabethan politics and virtue.

• English RenaissanceRelated: His epic joined classical forms with Protestant politics and English national identity.

• The Faerie QueeneRelated: He composed the epic and dedicated it to Elizabeth I.

• Ludovico AriostoRelated: Spenser drew on the episodic adventures and imaginative world of Ariosto’s poem.

• Philip SidneyRelated: Spenser dedicated The Shepheardes Calender to Sidney, recognizing his literary standing.