The Faerie Queene (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to change the title of The Faerie Queene Thursday, November 19 2009.

Daniel Z changed the title of The Faerie Queene Thursday, November 19 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Faerie Queene Sunday, August 2 2009.

• "The Faerie Queene" was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, "The Faerie Queene", with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Faerie Queene Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Edmund Spenser: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Faerie Queene Friday, July 17 2009.

• Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gende deeds; Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.