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By Edmund Spenser,C O'Donnell,Thomas Roche

ISBN-10: 1340637715

ISBN-13: 9781340637712

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ISBN-13: 9781505410938

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The Faerie Queene used to be the 1st epic in English and some of the most influential poems within the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his paintings to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the respect of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights together with Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose tale alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt ethical and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, can also be a preferrred paintings of surroundings, color and sensuous description.

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