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  2. The Faerie Queene - Wikipedia

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    The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...

  3. House of Pride (Faerie Queene) - Wikipedia

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    The House of Pride is a notable setting in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). The actions of cantos IV and V in Book I take place there, and readers have associated the structure with several allegories pertinent to the poem.

  4. Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia

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    The epic poem The Faerie Queene frontispiece, printed by William Ponsonby in 1590. Spenser's masterpiece is the epic poem The Faerie Queene. The first three books of The Faerie Queene were published in 1590, and the second set of three books was published in 1596. Spenser originally indicated that he intended the poem to consist of twelve books ...

  5. Spenserian stanza - Wikipedia

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    The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC. [1] [2]

  6. Gates of horn and ivory - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590, English) in book 1, stanzas XL and XLIV, in reference to a false dream being brought to the hero (Prince Arthur/the Knight of the Red Crosse). [17] Alexander Pope's mock-epic The Dunciad (1743), in Book III: "And thro' the Iv'ry Gate the Vision flies."

  7. Orgoglio - Wikipedia

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    Orgoglio is a literary character in Edmund Spenser's famous epic The Faerie Queene. He appears in the seventh canto of Book One as a beast and attacks the main character, Redcrosse, who symbolizes the ultimate Christian knight, during a moment of weakness. "Orgoglio" means "pride" in Italian.

  8. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Wednesday, January 8

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    Spoilers ahead! We've warned you. We mean it. Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today's NYT ...

  9. Talk:The Faerie Queene - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, from what is said in the proem of Book V, it is arguable that the language of The Faerie Queene is written, not in the modern way, but in the language of old because virtue, which is what the book treats of, has been corrupted in popular appreciation since then and Spenser is returning to the true virtues of old and so is ...