enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser

   Edmund Spenser (/ ˈ s p ɛ n s ər /; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January O.S. 1599) [2] [3] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the ...

3. The Faerie Queene - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene

   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 ...

4. Amoretti - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoretti

   The title page from the first edition of Amoretti and Epithalamion, printed by William Ponsonby in 1595.. Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century.

5. Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomart_Redeems_Faire_Amoret

   Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane, Henry Fuseli (1824). The Faerie Queene was an extremely popular topic with artists.. Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret illustrates a scene from book III of The Faerie Queene, a 16th-century allegorical epic poem by Edmund Spenser, [15] in which Busirane, [B] an evil sorcerer, abducts the beautiful Amoret (representing married virtue ...

6. Epithalamion (poem) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem)

   Spenser’s poetic interest in the earthly nature of joy takes Epithalamion beyond an expression of celebratory, communal joy and into a more private, secret joy that remains ineffable. Finally, the poem moves toward affective joy, bestowing a kind of blessedness, or even grace, upon the listener, much like the practice of reciting the Psalms ...

7. House of Pride (Faerie Queene) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Pride_(Faerie_Queene)

   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.