Which of these works is Spenser's elegy for the death of Sir Philip Sidney?
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Correct answer: Astrophel
Published in 1595, 'Astrophel' is a pastoral elegy for Sir Philip Sidney, who was Spenser's patron and a fellow poet. The title alludes to Sidney's own sonnet sequence 'Astrophil and Stella.'
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