The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics)

by Edmund Spenser

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Published to commemorate the six-book 1596 edition, this first modernized text presents selections from modern England's first epic poem. A massive Arthurian romance that asserts national identity through the vivid myths of Christianity, The Fairy Queen simultaneously celebrates and critiques the Elizabethan Golden Age and the Queen who conjured it.

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