The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes : Book One; Book Two; Books Three and Four; Book Five; Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos (Hardcover)

from CJ82487

The all too often forgotten epic poem. The action and characters are far more enjoyable than those found in Beowulf.

from P_S_Patrick

Paradise Lost aside, at around a thousand pages this is probably the most prominent English epic in poetry, not that there are many contenders. It is divided up into 6 main books, each of which contains tales on a specific virtue of chivalry; Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Justice, Friendship, a...

from jcelrod

I struggled with reading The Faerie Queen for quite a while until I got the hang of the language. Once I did, I was able to wallow in Spenser's imagination!

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Read it completely almost fifty years ago. I recall especially the Book of Courtesy, the Sixth Book, with its hero Calidore. I theorized at the time that Courtesy did not fit with the other allegorically systematized virtues. No wonder Spenser found he was concluding his epic before he'd really c...

from jeterat

Finished this one for a class. Although one of my favorite classes, Spenser's work was tough to get through. Immensely arrogant and dense.