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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 Queene: Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
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The faerie queene
2006, Hackett Pub. Co., Hackett Publishing Company
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The Faerie Qveene
2001, Longman
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The faerie queene
1978, Penguin
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The faerie queene: in two volumes : Books 4-7
1974, Dent
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The faerie queene
1915, University Press
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The faerie queene
1915, University Press
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The faerie queene: cantos I.-II., and the Prothalamion ...
1901, Merrill & co.
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The Faerie queene.: New ed., with notes critical and explanatory
1758, Printed by W. Faden
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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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Bibliography: p. 11-13.

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Penguin English poets
Genre
Poetry.

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Dewey Decimal Class
821/.3
Library of Congress
PR2358.A3 R6 1978

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Pagination
1247 p. ;
Number of pages
1247

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OL4294502M
ISBN 10
0140422072
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78322396
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19729
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