And so we come to the end of what would have been the first half of the Faerie Queene, and it’s strange because, just as book I tells a...

After (in my view) a lacklustre book IV, Spenser picks things up with possibly one of the best books in the whole epic. Book V, of...

The Fourth book of the Faerie Queene is an odd one. Firstly, it’s title “The Legende of Cambel and Telemond, or of Friendship” gets the...

Of all the virtues exhibited in the six books of the Faerie Queen, Chastity, the subject of the third book seems the most outmoded. In...

When raging passion with fierce tyrannie Robs reason of her due regalitie And makes it seuant to her basest part: The strong it weakens...

The Faerie Queen is the English equivalent of the Homeric epics, Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy. Each book explores a virtue,...

Reading the news today is a dreary business. The BBC News homepage has a new tab for a new crisis every other week. War in Ukraine....

Spenser’s Epithalamion is the culmination of the collection Amoretti and Epithalamanion. The collection is a sequence of 89 sonnets...

The Ruines of time follows Spenser as he has ruminates on a succession of visions of fallen cities, forgotten kings, and all things great...