The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser (author), C O'Donnell (editor), Thomas Roche (editor)

Fiction & Poetry, Poetry | Paperback Published on: 29/06/1978

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Synopsis

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140422078
Number of pages: 1248
Weight: 841g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 53 mm