The Faerie Queeneby Edmund Spenser | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Poetry Collections" |
| Pages: | 1248 |
| Year of Publication: | 1590 |
| Date Read: | 04/21/1999 |
| Notes: | One of the great long poems in the English language. A celebration of Protestant nationalism, it represents infidels and papists as villains, King Arthur as the hero, and married chastity as its central value. The form of The Faerie Queene fuses the medieval allegory with the Italian romantic epic. The plan was for 12 books (of which six were completed), focusing on 12 virtues exemplified in the quests of 12 knights from the court of Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a symbol for Elizabeth I herself. Arthur, in quest of Gloriana's love, would appear in each book and come to exemplify Magnificence, the complete man. |
| My Rating: | 4 |