The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language and the origin of a verse form that came to be known as Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues, though it is primarily an allegorical work, and can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors" he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devises," and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline".
Harvard Classics Volume 40 : English Poetry 1: Chaucer To Gray
Geoffrey Chaucer, Golden Deer Classics, Anonymous, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, George Gascoigne, Edward Dyer, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Henry Constable, Edmund Spenser, William Habington, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Rowlands, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Thomas Campion, Robert Devereux, Henry Wotton, Edward de Vere, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Joshua Sylvester, William Alexander, Richard Corbet, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, William Drummond, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Francis Bacon, James Shirley, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, William D'Avenant, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, William Cartwright, James Graham, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Jordan, Abraham Cowley, Alexander Brome, Andrew Marvell, Earl of Rochester, Charles Sedley, John Dryden, Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts, Lady Grisel Baillie, Joseph Addison, Allan Ramsay, John Gay, Henry Carey, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Colley Cibber, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, George Bubb Dodington
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The Complete Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Illustrated : The Faerie Queene, Complaints, Daphnaïda, Astrophel, Prothalamion and others
Edmund Spenser
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Old Songs : Exploring the Melodic Tapestry of Renaissance Poetry
Edmund Spenser, George Wither
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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
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The Faerie Queen
Edmund Spenser
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Harvard Classics Volume 39 : Prefaces And Prologues
William Caxton, Golden Deer Classics, John Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Henrie Condell, Iohn Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
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The Faerie Queene (Phoenix Classics)
Edmund Spenser, Phoenix Classics
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The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportional to the Twelve Monethes
Edmund Spenser
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Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)
Edmund Spenser
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