In one poem, this author describes writing his lady's name in the sand, only to see it continually wash away, upon which she chastises, "Vain manÂ…that dost in vain assay /
In one poem, this author describes writing his lady's name in the sand, only to see it continually wash away, upon which she chastises, "Vain manÂ…that dost in vain assay / A mortal thing so to immortalize." The first poem in the same collection by him imagines his lady's "lilly hands" handling the pages of his poems, and that sonnet sequence was first published alongside his "Epithalamion." In another work, the central character of Book I meets Duessa after being separated from the lady who has enlisted him to fight a dragon who has imprisoned her parents. That book ends with the wedding of Una and the Redcrosse Knight, and the work's title character, Gloriana, represented Elizabeth I. For 10 points, name this English poet of the sonnet cycle Amoretti and the allegorical epic The Faerie Queene.
In one poem, this author describes writing his lady's name in the sand, only to see it continually wash away, upon which she chastises, "Vain manÂ…that dost in vain assay /
Edmund Spenser