Spenser's Faerie queene.
A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite.
by Edmund Spenser
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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
September 7, 2007, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The faerie queene
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Spenser's Faerie queene.: A poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite.
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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.
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Edition Notes
Bibliography is scattered throughout the editor's preface.
Double t.-p. (v. 1) illustrated, dated 1897; each book has special t.-p., dated 1894-96, respectively those of books II-VI forming special title-pages to v. 2-6.
Includes reproductions of original title-pages.
Paged continuously.
One thousand copies printed on handmade paper.
"The basis of the text ... is the quarto of 1590, for books I-III; and the quarto of 1596, for books IV-VI."
Vol. 1 contains (prefixed to Book I): Stanza by Mr. Walter Crane, on completing the work of illustration. Certificate of issue. Author's dedications. Editor's preface, including, inter alia, (i) The author's seventeen complimentary sonnets. (ii) The five cancelled stanzas from Book III., canto XII. (iii) The seven sets of commendatory verses addressed to the author. (iv) Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, "expounding the intention of the work". (v) Letter from "Hobbynol" (Gabriel Harvey) to Edmund Spenser. (vi) Spenser's statement, circa 1584, of his aim and object in the conception and elaboration of the Faerie queene. Chronology of Edmund Spenser.
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