Time and the Calendar in Edmund Spenser's Poetical Works

according action Amoretti appears Arthur aspect associated becomes beginning Book brings calendar Calender Cantos Christ Christian Colin comes concerned considered continuity cyclic death divine doth earth eclogue Elizabeth Elizabethan English Epithalamion eternal example existence expressed Faerie Queene fairy fall fate Februarie figure Fortune four Gardens gives hand heauen human idea illustration important John Knight light London look man’s March means mind months moral Mutabilitie namely narrative nature notion parallel past poem poetic poetry present proem Providence Red Cross reference religious Renaissance represented seasons seems seen sense Shepheardes Calender shows sonnet speaking Spenser spiritual spring stanza structure Studies succession suggests symbol temporal things tion turn universal vision vols whole winter