Colin Clouts Come Home Again
poem by Spenser
Also known as: “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”
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discussed in biography
- In Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene and last years of Edmund Spenser
…episode is charmingly evoked in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (completed 1595), which is also one of Spenser’s most effective pastoral embodiments of a provincial innocent up against the sophistications of a centre of power, with subsequent reflections on false, superficial love and the true love that finally animates a…
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English literature
- In English literature: Sidney and Spenser
…and in his bitter satire Colin Clouts Come Home Again (1591), voiced the fading of these expectations in the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign, the beginning of that remarkable failure of political and cultural confidence in the monarchy. In the “Mutability Cantos,” melancholy fragments of a projected seventh book (published…
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