The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596.
The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser’s life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.
An Epic Undertaking
When I told my wife that I was going to write about Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590–6) for Slightly Foxed, she commiserated. She had read Book I at school, with the juicy bits cut out,...
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