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jjck1993
Nov 6, 20225 min read
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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jjck1993
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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jjck1993
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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jjck1993
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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jjck1993
Oct 9, 20225 min read
The Faerie Queen: Book I ¦ Edmund Spenser (1590)
The Faerie Queen is the English equivalent of the Homeric epics, Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy. Each book explores a virtue,...
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jjck1993
Oct 3, 20223 min read
Prothalamion: Edmund Spenser (1596)
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....
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jjck1993
Sep 25, 20224 min read
Epithalamion: Edmund Spenser (1595)
Spenser’s Epithalamion is the culmination of the collection Amoretti and Epithalamanion. The collection is a sequence of 89 sonnets...
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jjck1993
Aug 14, 20223 min read
The Ruines of Time: Edmund Spenser (1951)
The Ruines of time follows Spenser as he has ruminates on a succession of visions of fallen cities, forgotten kings, and all things great...
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