The Faerie Queene
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‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light
Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’ The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch Duessa; Sir Guyon, Knight of Temperance, who escapes the Cave of Mammon and destroys Acrasia’s Bowre of Bliss; and the lady-knig
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 25 January 1979
ISBN-10 : 0140422072 | ISBN-13: 9780140422078
Release date: 25 January 1979
ISBN-10 : 0140422072 | ISBN-13: 9780140422078
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