The Faerie Queene

Text:

Book I, Canto I from the RPO

Contexts:

• Spenser's biography @ the University of Cambridge

• Explanation of various literary terms and some useful notes on the Faerie Queene

• SparkNotes on the FQ

• Bartleby on the FQ

• An essay on Spenser's didacticism in the FQ

• An essay about the spiritual warfare in the FQ

• VoS links to Spenser resources

• Fun stuff: English Handwriting 1500-1700 course

• An intertextual connection – compare the first book of FQ with the 17^th century allegorical novel Pilgrim's Progress

Terms:

romance, knight errant, quest, allegorical epic, in medias res, epic similes, emblem books , Spenserian stanza, patronage, propaganda.