The Faerie Queene, Book V: Justice ¦ Edmund Spenser (1956)
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...
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Oct 30, 20224 min read
The Faerie Queene, Book IV: On Friendship (1956)
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...
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Oct 24, 20225 min read
The Faerie Queene, Book III: Of Chastity ¦ Edmund Spenser (1590)
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...
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Oct 16, 20224 min read
The Faerie Queen Book II (Temperance) ¦ Edmund Spenser (1590)
When raging passion with fierce tyrannie Robs reason of her due regalitie And makes it seuant to her basest part: The strong it weakens...
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