Pastoral poem · 1579

The Shepheard’s Calender

Twelve Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes

by Edmund Spenser

Spenser’s first major work: twelve eclogues, one for each month, mixing pastoral love-complaint, satire of the clergy, and elegy in a deliberately archaic English.

Contents · 12 parts

• Januarie88 lines
• Februarieabout 260 lines
• Marchabout 130 lines
• Aprilabout 170 lines
• Mayabout 330 lines
• Juneabout 130 lines
• Julyabout 240 lines
• Augustabout 210 lines
• Septemberabout 270 lines
• Octoberabout 130 lines
• Novemberabout 220 lines
• Decemberabout 180 lines

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