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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, by Edmund Spenser, et al, Edited by George Armstrong Wauchope

Title: Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

Author: Edmund Spenser

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SPENSER'S THE FAERIE QUEENE

BOOK I

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY GEORGE ARMSTRONG WAUCHOPE, M.A., Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE

Velut inter ignes luna minores

New York The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan & CO., LTD. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1903

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INTRODUCTION:

I. The Age which produced the Faerie Queene

II. The Author of the Faerie Queene

III. Study of the Faerie Queene:

1. A Romantic Epic

2. Influence of the New Learning

3. Interpretation of the Allegory

4. The Spenserian Stanza

5. Versification

6. Diction and Style

IV. Chronological Table of Events

THE FAERIE QUEENE. BOOK I:

Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh

Sonnet to Sir Walter Raleigh

Dedication to Queen Elizabeth

Canto I

Canto II

Canto III

Canto IV

Canto V

Canto VI

Canto VII

Canto VIII

Canto IX

Canto X

Canto XI

Canto XII

NOTES

GLOSSARY