Amoretti by Edmund Spenser (Points)

1. It is a series of sonnets addressed to Elizabeth Boyle, which is concluded by Epithalamion.

2. In this, sonnet, Spenser expresses "his feelings with recourse to allegory." (Legouis)

3. "In the first rank of the works of the English Renascence, Spenser's sonnets come between those of Sidney and Shakespeare." (Legouis)

4. The rhyme scheme of his sonnets is--abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee