Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Synopsis

The Faerie Queene is written by Edmund Spenser, an English poet who crafted the modern English verse. This epic poem has been considered as the first work to be compiled in Spenserian stanza which is a fixed verse form contains 9 lines.

One of the longest poems of English language, this was written to celebrate the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. This poem is considered to be incomplete, as the author originally intended write the poem in 12 books, while we have only six books comprising two volumes, published in 1590 and 1596.

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