Arrange the following poetic lines chronologically in the order of the publication of the poems they…
A. ‘Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere’ opens Sonnet 26 of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti (1595). E. ‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’ opens Shakespeare’s Sonnet…
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Arrange the following poetic lines chronologically in the order of the publication of the poems they appear in:
A. Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere;
B. Resembles life what once was held of light,
C. Away! The moor is dark beneath the moon
D. When I consider how my light is spent
E. When in the chronicle of wasted time/ I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
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Correct answer A
A. ‘Sweet is the Rose, but growes vpon a brere’ opens Sonnet 26 of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti (1595). E. ‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’ opens Shakespeare’s Sonnet 106, published in Shake-speares Sonnets (1609). D. ‘When I consider how my light is spent’ is John Milton’s sonnet on his blindness, written in the 1650s and first published in his Poems of 1673. C. ‘Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon’ opens Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Stanzas.—April, 1814’, published with Alastor (1816). B. ‘Resembles life what once was held of light’ opens Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘What is Life?’. It was written earlier but first printed in The Literary Souvenir for 1829. The order of publication is therefore A, E, D, C, B. Every other sequence puts at least one poem out of place. A, B, D, C, E and A, C, D, E, B put Shakespeare’s 1609 sonnet after Milton’s 1673 one, and C, A, E, B, D puts Shelley’s 1816 poem first.
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