Name this author of many sonnets who near the end of the sixteenth century wrote an allegorical work praising Queen Elizabeth titled The Faerie Queene.
This poet wrote a poem celebrating the marriages of Elizabeth and Katherine Somerset titled Prothalamion (pro-thuh-LAY-mee-on), and he celebrated his own courtship and marriage with a cycle of poems titled Amoretti. This poet wrote the line, "A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain," in a work containing The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross. That work, starting with Holiness, is based on twelve virtues, though only six of its twelve books were completed. Name this author of many sonnets who near the end of the sixteenth century wrote an allegorical work praising Queen Elizabeth titled The Faerie Queene.
This poet wrote a poem celebrating the marriages of Elizabeth and Katherine Somerset titled Prothalamion (pro-thuh-LAY-mee-on), and he celebrated his own courtship and marriage with a cycle of poems titled Amoretti.
Edmund Spenser