The Faerie Queene
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Published: 29th June 1978
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Publishing Details
The Faerie Queene
By (Author) Edmund Spenser
Edited by C O'Donnell
Edited by Thomas Roche
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
29th June 1978
29th June 1978
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
1248
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 52mm
853g
Description
Spenser's masterpiece "The Faerie Queen", is among the most influential poems in the English language. it was the first epic in English and established the possibilities of heroic poetry in the English tradition. The author's intention was to rival, or surpass, the epic romances of the Italian poets Ariosto and Tasso through the "darke conceit" of this poem, which unites the medieval romance and Renaissance epic.
Author Bio
Edmund Spenser (1552-99) is best known for The Faerie Queene, dedicated to Elizabeth I, and his sonnet sequence Amoretti and Epithalamion dedicated to his wife Elizabeth Boyle. Secretary to the Lord Deputy to Ireland, Spenser moved there in 1580 and remained there until near the end of his life, when he fled the Tyrone Rebellion in 1598. T.P. Roche is Professor of English at Princeton University and author of many books on Renaissance literature.
