Selections from The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
Selections from The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
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Selections from The Faerie Queene

Author: Edmund Spenser

Narrator: John Moffatt

Abridged: 3 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 05/01/2006


Synopsis

This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser’s finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebekah on April 09, 2024

A bit hard to follow. This required a lot of concentration. I found the hints at astrology in the part form book 7 canto VII interesting, and I think the stories were good when I could follow them. Occasionally I lost them basically anything that would distract me from the flow. As an epic poem it i......more