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Provides careful annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment, and introductory material setting the poem - The Faerie Queene - in its historical and literary context. This book also includes additional original material, which includes a chronology, a letter... Read Full Overview

This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement. The first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time,... Read Full Overview

"The general end, therefore, of all The Faerie Queene], is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part... Read Full Overview

Edmund Spenser was an English Renaissance poet acclaimed as one of the greatest writers in the language, and The Faerie Queene, an allegorical epic poem, is his magnum opus. It is also one of the longest poems ever written in English.

Este poema celebra la imagen de la Reina Isabel I y especialmente su victoria contra la Gran Armada de Felipe II ocurrida en 1588. El poema est estructurado, como expuso Alastair Fowler, en siete libros que reflejan la semana planetaria y astrol gica, verdadera alegor a de los... Read Full Overview

Edmund Spenser was an English Renaissance poet acclaimed as one of the greatest writers in the language, and The Faerie Queene, an allegorical epic poem, is his magnum opus. It is also one of the longest poems ever written in English.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview