English Literature / Unit 6 ENL 0511 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Spenser's Faerie Queene: Plan and Allegory
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The idea
Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, published from fifteen ninety, is an allegorical national epic in Spenserian stanzas, dedicated to Elizabeth. He completed six books of a planned larger work, each for a virtue, beginning with Holiness. Prince Arthur, seeking Gloriana, links the books.
In practice
One virtue, one knight, per book.
Where people slip
The poem is unfinished.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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