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The Faerie Queene (The Faerie Queene Books)

Edmund Spenser

Paperback | Pages: 1248 pages

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Title	:	The Faerie Queene (The Faerie Queene Books)
Author	:	Edmund Spenser
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1248 pages
Published	:	June 29th 1978 by Penguin Classics (first published 1590)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fantasy. Fiction. Literature

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The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

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Original Title:	The Faerie Queene
ISBN:	0140422072 (ISBN13: 9780140422078)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140422078,00.html?The_Faerie_Queene_Edmund_Spenser#
Series:	The Faerie Queene Books

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FINALLY, IT IS FINISHED!In all seriousness, I have enjoyed reading this, even if it did take me over a year! I read most of this aloud because it was lovely to hear the rhythms of the poetry. Britomart is my fave and I want a spin off where she goes around being a kick ass knight and freeing damsels, because those were the best bits. Parts of this did drag but on the whole I'm pleased I've read it.

As Galadriel said in Return of the King, some things which shouldn't have been forgotten were lost. Spenser is one of those things. One of the great tragedies in Western pedagogy has been this ignorance of Spenser. He tells a beautiful story using the vehicle of hypnotic poetry. And there is sex. Lots of it. But even the sexual themes have pedagogical ends. Britomart is not merely chaste. She is told to vigorously pursue chastity. This does not mean merely to avoid all types of sexual

Note, April 24, 2019: I edited this just now to insert spoiler tags in a couple of places (I don't think Goodreads provided that option at the time I originally wrote the review).I read this (in a different edition, without notes and which preserved the Elizabethean spellings) as part of my course preparation for teaching British Literature when we were home schooling our girls, and found it a challenging --though not unrewarding-- read. The quaint spellings and archaic diction and vocabulary

Whew. Well, that's done.

Spenser is probably the least read of the 'great' Elizabethan writers, and picking up his Faerie Queen it's easy to see why: it's over a thousand pages of poetry (9 line stanzas) written in a kind of cross-over medieval-renaissance English. Even English graduates tend not to have had to read the whole thing, getting away with selected cantos, a kind of edited highlights. But starting at the beginning and reading it straight through is a completely different experience. While it is overtly a

A Note on the TextTable of DatesFurther ReadingA Letter of the Authors Expounding His Whole Intention in the Course of this Worke: Which For that it Giveth Great Light to the Reader, for the Better Vnderstanding is Hereunto AnnexedCommendatory VersesDedicatory Sonnets--The Faerie QueeneTextual AppendixNotesCommon Words

Some place Ariosto above Dante because he tempers his ridiculously erratic romanticism with remarkable satire, joie de vivre, and a gently sloping concession to an ending. While both Ariosto's and Spenser's works are long-winded, Spenser never overcomes the need for vindication which gradually grew out of this work. This desperation precluded the light-heartedness that buoyed Ariosto's lengthy tale.The more one reads The Faerie Queene, the more one begins to respect Liz's desire to keep this man