
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 29. June 1978
Book
Paperback/Softback
1248 pages
978-0-14-042207-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 68 mm
Weight
841 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-042207-8 (9780140422078)
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Edmund Spenser | C. O'Donnell | Thomas Roche
The Faerie Queene
E-Book
11/2003
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€14.99
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Persons
Edmund Spenser (1552-99) is best known for The Faerie Queene, dedicated to Elizabeth I, and his sonnet sequence Amoretti and Epithalamion dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Boyle. Secretary to the Lord Deputy to Ireland, Spenser moved there in 1580 and remained there until near the end of his life, when he fled the Tyrone Rebellion in 1598. T.P. Roche is Professor of English at Princeton University and author of many books on Renaissance literature.
Content
The Faerie QueeneA Note on the Text
Table of Dates
Further Reading
A Letter of the Authors
Commendatory Verses
Dedicatory Sonnets
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Textual Appendix
Notes
Common Words
Table of Dates
Further Reading
A Letter of the Authors
Commendatory Verses
Dedicatory Sonnets
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Textual Appendix
Notes
Common Words