Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
Correct Answer :
B. The shepheaedes Calendar
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The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
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third
fifth
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Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
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John Donne
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1590
1591
1592
1593
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Troy
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repetition of parallel syntactic structures
ironic understatement
stress on every third diphthong
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Reveal, revel and reverie
Raillery, renunciation and recoup
None of the above
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1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
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William Shakespeare
Thomas Kyd
John Dryden
John Donne
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the lower orders of the nobility
agricultural laborers
the clergy
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1553
1554
1555
1550
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British
German
Dutch
American
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leather merchant
civil servant
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Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
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1594
1604
1590
1593
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