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The Faerie Queene

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A monumental English Renaissance epic of holiness, virtue, chivalry, allegory, and political imagination.

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The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene follows knights, queens, monsters, temptations, and moral trials through one of the great allegorical landscapes of English literature. This edition presents Edmund Spenser’s epic for readers interested in Renaissance poetry, romance, mythology, virtue, and early modern English style.

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Edmund Spenser died in 1599, and The Faerie Queene was first published in 1590. These dates support the public-domain basis for the source text used in this English edition.

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

QVEENE.

_Disposed into twelue bookes,

Fashioning_

XII. Morall vertues.

TO

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02THE MOST HIGH,
  3. 03MIGHTIE
  4. 04MAGNIFICENT
  5. 05EMPRESSE RENOVVMED
  6. 06FOR PIETIE, VERTVE,
  7. 07AND ALL GRATIOVS
  8. 08GOVERNMENT ELIZABETH BY
  9. 09THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE
  10. 10OF ENGLAND FRAVNCE AND
  11. 11IRELAND AND OF VIRGINIA,
  12. 12DEFENDOVR OF THE
  13. 13HVMBLE SERVAVNT
  14. 14EDMVND SPENSER
  15. 15DOTH IN ALL HVMILITIE
  16. 16DEDICATE,
  17. 17PRESENT
  18. 18AND CONSECRATE THESE
  19. 19HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE
  20. 20VVITH THE ETERNITIE
  21. 21OF HER
  22. 22THE FIRST
  23. 23BOOKE OF THE
  24. 24THE LEGENDE OF THE
  25. 25KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE,
  26. 26_Canto I._
  27. 27THE SECOND
  28. 28BOOKE OF THE
  29. 29THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON,
  30. 30THE THIRD
  31. 31BOOKE OF THE
  32. 32THE SECOND
  33. 33PART OF THE
  34. 34THE FOVRTH,
  35. 35FIFTH, AND
  36. 36THE FOVRTH
  37. 37BOOKE OF THE
  38. 38THE FIFTH
  39. 39BOOKE OF THE
  40. 40THE LEGEND OF ARTEGALL
  41. 41THE SIXTE
  42. 42BOOKE OF THE
  43. 43THE LEGEND OF S. CALIDORE
  44. 44TWO CANTOS
  45. 45VNDER THE LEGEND
  46. 46Canto VI.
  47. 47Canto VII.
  48. 48Letter of the Authors expounding his
  49. 49COMMENDATORY VERSES
  50. 50DEDICATORY SONNETS

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