... the long-term memory of a particular version of the past. Thus, when he invokes Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale in Book IV of his Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser defines Chaucer’s work as a ‘monument’, albeit one defaced by time. The idea of the monument, then, is bound up with the idea of the ruin. Thus, Spenser...

...The second chapter focuses on the best-known and most extensive imitation of Tasso’s poem in all of English literature, Spenser’s re-imagining and re-working of Armida’s enchanted garden in cantos 15 and 16 as the Bowre of Blisse in the final canto of Book 2 of The Faerie Queene...

... their use of biblical types for contemporary individuals and concerns. In contrast to deconstructive, gender-based, or psychoanalytic studies, this book attempts to read The Faerie Queene as its first readers might have done. Sermon studies by A. F. Herr, Peter Blench, Millar MacLure...

...Some 20th and 21st century literary critics treat allegoresis as a project fraught with psychological and philosophical complexity and The Faerie Queene as deliberately obscure or ironic. Most early marginal comments demonstrate that Spenser’s first readers found the poem’s...

... is implicated in all the mistakes made by Red Cross. Archimago Berry Craig Brooks Davies Douglas Cain Thomas H Cullen Patrick Error Hume Anthea Kane Sean Levin Richard A Rose Mark Weiner Andrew D Berger Harry Jr Duessa Faerie Queene The fauns and satyrs Fish Stanley Gless Darryl J Hadfield...

...Edmund Spenser and the first readers of The Faerie Queene routinely heard their national concerns—epidemics, political plotting, recent Tudor history—discussed in biblical terms. This book samples contemporary sermons, homilies, and liturgies to demonstrate that religious rhetoric...

... The Faerie Queene. Collingwood Robin George Greenblatt Stephen Grice H Paul Lethbridge J B Teskey Gordon Baldwin William Cheney Patrick Fitzpatrick Joan Marlowe Christopher Watkins W B C Hieatt A Kent Hunt Maurice Mayhall Jane Potts Abbie Findlay Reid Robert L Thaler Alwin Eliot T S...

...This is the first book-length study devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene. Challenging the standard identification of Spenser’s Una with the post-Reformation Church in England, it argues that she stands, rather...