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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.

Table of Contents
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

The Faerie Queene

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 29 June 1978
      ISBN-13 9780140422078
      978-0140422078
      ISBN-10 0140422072
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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