"Which English Poet Laureate wrote ""The Faerie Queene""?"
The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. "The Faerie Queene" is notable for its form: it is one of the longest poems in the English language as well as the origin of the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine different virtues, and though the text is primarily an allegorical work, it can be read on several levels of
The Faerie Queene in England at that time. "The Faerie Queene" draws heavily on Ariosto and Tasso. The first three books of "The Faerie Queene" operate as a unit, representing the entire cycle from the fall of Troy to the reign of Elizabeth. Using "in medias res", Spenser introduces his historical narrative at three different intervals, using chronicle, civil conversation, and prophecy as its occasions. Despite the historical elements of his text, Spenser is careful to label himself a historical poet as opposed to a historiographer. Spenser notes this differentiation in his letter to Raleigh, noting "a Historiographer discourseth of affairs orderly as