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The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch Duessa; Sir Guyon, Knight of Temperance, who escapes the Cave of Mammon and destroys Acrasia’s Bowre of Bliss; and the lady-knight Britomart’s search for her Sir Artegall, revealed to her in an enchanted mirror. Although composed as a moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene’s magical atmosphere captivated the imaginations of later poets from Milton to the Victorians.
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The Faerie Qveene
2007, Pearson Longman, Routledge, Longman
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The Faerie Queene: Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
September 7, 2007, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Spenser: The Faerie Queene (re-issue) (2nd Edition) (Longman Annotated English Poets)
August 22, 2006, Longman
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The faerie queene
2006, Hackett Pub. Co., Hackett Publishing Company
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Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Second Edition
October 25, 2001, Longman
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The faerie queene: edited by Thomas P. Roche, Jr., with the assistance of C. Patrick O'Donnell, Jr.
1978, Penguin
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The Faerie Queene: Book 2
December 18, 1975, Oxford University Press, USA
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The faerie queene: disposed into twelve books fashioning twelve moral vertues.
1959, Dent
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Faery queene: book I
1957, Clarendon Press
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The faerie queen: disposed into twelve books fashioning XII morall vertues
1953, Heritage Press
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1953, Heritage Press
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1953, Printed by Oxford University Press for the Limited Editions Club
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The Faerie queene: disposed into twelve books fashioning twelve moral vertues
1931, J. M. Dent & sons, ltd., E. P. Dutton & co.
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The faerie queene.: The second booke, contayning, The legend of Sir Guyon; or, Of temperaunce
1929, Harper & brothers
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The faerie queene.: The second booke, contayning, The legend of Sir Guyon; or, Of temperaunce
1929, Harper & brothers
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The Faerie queene: disposed into twelue bookes fashioning XII. morall vertues
1923, The Ashendene press
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Faerie Queene: 2 vols. (Oxford English Texts)
February 22, 1922, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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The Faerie Queene.: With an introd. by William P. Trent.
1903, T.Y. Crowell
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The faerie queene: cantos I.-II and the Prothalamion ... with prefatory and explanatory notes.
1901, Maynard, Merrill & co.
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1901, Clarendon Press
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1897, George Allen
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The faerie queene.: To which is added his Epithalamion.
1859, G. Routledge
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1853, Routledge
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The faerie queene: with an exact collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto ... : to which are now added, a new life of the author [by Thomas Birch], and also a glossary : adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates, from the original drawings of the late W. Kent ....
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