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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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Penguin
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English
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1248

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The faerie queene: in two volumes : Books 4-7
1974, Dent
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The faerie queene: cantos I.-II., and the Prothalamion ...
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The Faerie queene.: New ed., with notes critical and explanatory
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The faerie queene: with an exact collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto; the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596.
1751, Printed for J. Brindley and S. Wright
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The faerie queene: disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues.
1609, Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes
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Table of Contents

A Note on the Text. 7
Table of Dates. 9
Further Reading. 11
A Letter of the Authors. 15
Commendatory Verses. 19
Dedicatory Sonnets. 25
Book I. 39
Book II. 203
Book III. 383
Book IIII. 563
Book V. 723
Book VI. 875
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie. 1025
Textual Appendix. 1057
Notes. 1067
Common Words. 1245

Edition Notes

Includes bibliography and notes.

Published in
London, UK, New York, USA, Camberwell, Australia, Toronto, Canada, New Delhi, India, Albany, New Zealand, Rosebank, South Africa
Series
Penguin classics
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821' .3
Library of Congress
PR 2358. A3 R6 1978, PR2358.A3 R6 1978, MLCS 91/12507 (P)

Contributors

Editor
Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
Assistant Editor
C. Patrick O'Donnell, Jr.

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
1247 p.
Number of pages
1248
Dimensions
20.3 x 13.0 x 5.6 centimeters
Weight
839 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2112726M
ISBN 10
0140422072
ISBN 13
9780140422078
LCCN
88166939, 78322396
OCLC/WorldCat
636776581, 4464036
Library Thing
19729
Goodreads
765427

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