Bilokonenko I. Sonnet cycle "Amoretti" in the context of court culture of England Elizabethan era.

Object: the creative legacy of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. Purpose: a study of the artistic and aesthetic values of the lyric cycle "Amoretti" by E. Spenser considering aesthetic principles of the English court society of Elizabethan era. Methods: Literary-historical, structural and semiotic analysis, comparative, structural and semantic, typological approach, receptive approach. The influence of Edmund Spenser's works as one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan era on court culture of England were characterized. For the first time in the Ukrainian national literary theory: performed a comprehensive study of the artistic values of the lyric cycle "Amoretti" by E. Spencer in the context of the literary process of England's later Tudor period. The idea of the individual creative features that influenced the formation of this new national poet of England were given. The author illustrates aspects that determined the Elizabethan poet as a poet of a difficult transitional time: dynastic myth about the greatness of the Tudors and the national mythology were being formed; existing competition between print culture and manuscript traditions; Renaissance, Mannerism and early Baroque influences. The status of the poet was not yet defined and the development of categories of authorship had only just begun. Scope: learning process.