1. Sixteenth Century Poetry and Its Religious Views
... Puritanism but remained Protestant. He was also influenced by Renaissance Neoplatonism but was earthy and practical, as well as lover and celebrator of physical beauty yet also sternly moral. In Sonnet 68 he opens with a direct address to the risen Christ : "Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day, | Didst make thy triumph over death and sin :", and ends with ... .". Spenser readjusts the Petrarchan model by seeing the mistress not as an unattainable image of perfection but as a creature reflecting and sometimes clouding the glory of her Divine Creator. In Sonnet 9 he professes that...
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