Author: Edmund SpenserPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Faerie Queene
Author: Edmund SpenserPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Spenser: The Faerie Queene
Author: A. C. HamiltonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317865642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.
Faerie queene. book III
Author: Edmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene
Author: Edmund SpenserPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1253
Book Description
The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s magnum opus, composed for Queen Elizabeth I. The epic poem is incomplete, as only six of the intended twelve books were published before his death. Despite that, it stands as one of the longest poems in the English language. During its composition, Spenser invented a new type of verse form: the Spenserian stanza. The form consists of eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a line in iambic hexameter, with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc. He purposely included archaic language and spelling to make the work feel comparable to the Arthurian myths written during the Middle Ages. Spenser used Aristotle’s list of virtues as the foundation for his work. Each of the six books follows a different knight who symbolize a unique virtue: the Knight of the Redcross for Holiness, Guyon for Temperance, Britomartis for Chastity, Cambell and Telamond for Friendship, Artegall for Justice, and Calidore for Courtesy. Fragments of an unfinished seventh book—the “Cantos of Mutability”—would have centered on the virtue of Constancy. In a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, Spenser reveals that King Arthur represents the virtue of Magnificence, “the perfection of all the rest.” The first book opens with the Redcross Knight on a quest ordered by Queen Gloriana to defeat a horrible dragon. Traveling with him is Lady Una and her dwarf servant, who are leading the knight to the land where the dragon dwells. A terrible storm forces the travelers to shelter in the nearest cave—and a monster’s den. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Spenser's Britomart
Author: Edmund SpenserStories from the Faerie Queene
Author: Edmund SpenserThe Mutabilitie Cantos
Author: Edmund SpenserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
These cantos, published posthumously, are general agreed to contain some of the finest poetry in "The Faerie Queene", and are of central importance in the study of philosophic and religious beliefs in the late sixteenth century.
The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen
Author: Geraldine McCaughreanPublisher: Gardners Books
ISBN: 9780340866221
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This version of Edmund Spenser's classic tale is retold in an accessible manner, bringing stories of knights, dragons, sorcerers and princesses to a new generation.
Lament
Author: Maggie StiefvaterPublisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738722294
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a music prodigy, who’s about to find out she can see faeries. Two mysterious (and cute) guys enter her life. Trouble is, Luke is a soulless faerie assassin and Aodhan is a dark faerie soldier. Their orders from the Faerie Queen? Kill Deirdre.
Author: Edmund Spenser