Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: O'Donnell, C.; Roche, Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 1248
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141920405
• Artikelnr.: 38131366

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

The Faerie QueeneA Note on the Text
Table of Dates
Further Reading
A Letter of the Authors
Commendatory Verses
Dedicatory Sonnets
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Textual Appendix
Notes
Common Words