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Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
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Description for Faerie Queene
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Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there ... Read more
Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872208919
SKU
V9780872208919
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About Edmund Spenser
Abraham Stoll is Assistant Professor of English, University of San Diego.
Reviews for Faerie Queene
A thoughtful edition with just the right amount of annotation for a class on sixteenth century literature.
Byron Nelson, West Virginia University
Byron Nelson, West Virginia University