jjck1993Nov 21, 20223 minThe Faerie Queene, Book VI: Courtesy ¦ Edmund Spenser (1956)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...
jjck1993Nov 6, 20225 minThe 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...
jjck1993Oct 30, 20224 minThe 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...
jjck1993Oct 24, 20225 minThe 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...