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1. The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser that was first published in Summary Read an overview of the entire poem or a line by line Summary and Analysis.

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2. The Faerie Queene, one of the great long poems in the English language, written in the 16th century by Edmund Spenser. As originally conceived, the poem was to have been a religious-moral-political allegory in 12 books, each consisting of the adventures of a knight representing a particular moral virtue; Book I, for example, recounts the legend of the Red Cross Knight, or .

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3. The Faerie Queenewas written over the course of about a decade by Edmund Spenser. He published the first three books in , then the next four books (plus revisions to the first three) in It was originally intended to be twelve books long, with each book detailing a specific Christian virtue in its central character.

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4. Written during the height of England's flowering in the Renaissance under Queen Elizabeth I, The Faerie Queene was Spenser's attempt to write the ultimate poem of his time celebrating both his beloved monarch and his beloved country, England. In fact, England came a little bit late to the whole Renaissance-flowering party that had been going on in Europe, so Spenser was also .

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5. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen/5.

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6. The Faerie Queene () is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (c. –), which follows the adventures of a number of medieval knights. The poem, written in a deliberately archaic style, draws on history and myth, particularly the legends of Arthur.

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7. Mar 07,  · The Faerie Queene was the product of certain definite conditions which existed in England toward the close of the sixteenth century. The first of these national conditions was the movement known as the revival of chivalry ; the second was the spirit of nationality fostered by the English Reformation; and the third was that phase of the English Renaissance commonly .

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8. The Faerie Queene: Book I. Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore, And all the world in their subiection held; Till that infernall feend with foule vprore Forwasted all their land, and them expeld: Whom to auenge, she had this Knight from far co[m]peld. Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag.

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9. FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSE. LO I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;.

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