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The Faerie Queene
There are many examples of the blending of classical/"pagan" literary and cultural references with Christian/Biblical ones in The Faerie Queene, particularly in Book I. In fact this book is often...
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The Faerie Queene
The poetic means that English poet Edmund Spenser uses in Book III of “The Faerie Queene” to represent “a version” of love include the following: Use of Theme Spenser use the theme of...
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In the epic tale 'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser the knight in the story gets the name 'Redcross' gets his name from a cross the colour of blood painted onto his shield. Redcross has been...
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The Faerie Queene
The eNotes "Character" section on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene defines exactly what each character represents. The Red Cross Knight (or Redcrosse) represents Saint George and "the Christian...
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The Red Cross Knight's dream in Canto I, XLVI-LV, is unusual in that it is the deliberate handicraft of Morpheus, requested by the Knight's enemy, Archimago, and delivered to the Knight by the...
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The Faerie Queene
When Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene, he faced an enormous challenge. He wrote in the language of Geoffrey Chaucer, as a compliment not only to this other author, but also to the era of...
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This question links "painter-poet" to Edmund Spenser, basically asking if Spenser is adept at using imagery—for a painter-poet would be best suited to write in such a way that his descriptions...
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The Faerie Queene
In the epic poem The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser has two purposes. The first is to extol the virtues of medieval chivalry (with the hope that there will be renewed interest in this way of life),...
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The Spenserian Stanza consists of nine lines (eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a single alexandrine) and a rhyme scheme of abbabbcbcc. As seen in the opening stanza of The Faerie Queen,...
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The Faerie Queene is the most perfect type which we have in English of the purely romantic poem. Four elements enter into its composition: "it is pastoral by association, chivalrous by temper,...
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Many scholars recognize two dominant categories of allegory in Spenser's work: (1) moral and religious allegory; (2) historical and national allegory. "Political" is a term that might be...
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The dominant Protestant theme in Book I is Holiness. Spenser's allegory is threefold: moral, religious, and personal. Critics agree, as represented by George Wauchope, Ph.D. in the 1921...
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Book I of the Faerie Queentakes the reader on the epic adventures of the Red Crosse Knight. Spenser once said of this knight the following: "The first of the knight of the Redcrosse, in whome I...
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The first step in writing about Spenser's dark conceit is to define it. This may be a harder task than it seems. Spenser appears the originator, or the first user in print, of the term "dark...
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I would have to say that the answer to your question will vary from reader to reader. Many may find the text to imaginative and superficial. Others, like myself, love the imagery he provides.
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Like most great poems, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is less important for its meaning than for its artistry. One key aspect of the artistry of any poem involves the poem’s sound effects...
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Edmund Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene, is largely a symbolic tale, dedicated to Elizabeth I. Spenser needed a patron to provide for his support while he worked, and patrons expect that the...
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(continued from previous post) Now, Everyman does not have the pleasure of being shown the future or his place in the New Jerusalem. Everyman has to accept that on faith, though he is not alone in...
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George Armstrong Wauchope, Ph.D. of South Carolina College explains in his introductory remarks to Book I of Spenser's text in Gutenberg Project that Book II is an allegory about "man's...
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene is the most perfect type which we have in English of the purely romantic poem. Four elements enter into its composition: "it is pastoral by association, chivalrous by temper,...
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If you can follow the action, amid all of Spenser's poetic and archaic language, the adventures of Red Cross and Una are exciting. While so much of the poem is an allegory (that is, a character,...
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For me it is definitely the allegorical nature of the poem. Nobody did allegory like Spenser, with every character representing something else, and almost every action or plot twist having a...
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The Red cross Knight represents the virtue of Holiness, and also the English Nation. Una represents truth, both Religious Truth and moral truth. The Dragon sometimes represents Satan,...
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In this episode, Redcrosse is sent a dream of Duessa, who appears in the likeness of Una. Unlike Una, however, Duessa is schooled in the arts of illusion, and seeks with 'false shewes [to] abuse...
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There are many religious details and references connected specifically with the description of Red Crosse's attire in this section. He bares the cross of his Lord upon his breast and on his shield,...
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You can download a modern English version of The Faerie Queene at Project Gutenberg at the link pasted below.If you'll give yourself a chance, you might find that Middle English, which is what...
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In Book I, stanza 36 specifically refers to sleep. "The sad humour loading the eye liddes" (The Literature of Renaissance England 179) does not mean that Red Cross and the Lady are sad or weeping,...
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"Old father Nilus" refers to the Nile River in Egypt (Aegyptus). The river floods every year and deposits rich soil on the land ("the fertile slime outwell). Likewise, when the...
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Spenserian temperance is based on the assumption that man is destined to become perfect. The Christian principles he uses lead him to believe that perfection of man is as inevitable as the...
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By this I believe Spenser meant an allegory, in other words the Faerie Queen is meant to be read as an entertainment that also has a purpose. I found the following quote on enotes: according to...
