The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, Thomas P. Roche, C. Patrick O'Donnell

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1979 Trade paperback Very good. No dust jacket as issued. no rips or tears, some notes detected throughout text, previous owner's name & writing on outer bottom page edges, heavy wear on cover with creases, rubbing on edges & corners, small rips on top of spine, corners... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 1248 p. Penguin Classics. Audience: General/trade.

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Creased spine. Slight wear to the cover and pages. Pages appear unmarked. Ships the next business day, with tracking and delivery confirmation sent to your email.

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1979 Softcover VG

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New York 1979 S Paperback Reprint Very Good 8vo-over 7"-9" tall A VG copy. Creasing and wear to wraps. Light age discoloration. 1247ppgs.

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1/1/1979 TPA VG. Penguin Classics 1987

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Clean, tight. Minor shelf wear. Epic poem that was published between 1590 and 1609 by Edmund Spenser. It is the central poem of the Elizabethan period and is one of the great long poems in the English language. A celebration of Protestant nationalism, it represents infidels and papists as villains, King Arthur as the hero, and married chastity as its central value. The form of The Faerie Queene fuses the medieval allegory with the Italian romantic epic. The plan was for 12 books (of which six were completed), focusing on 12 virtues exemplified in the quests of 12 knights from the court of Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a symbol for Elizabeth I herself. Arthur, in quest of Gloriana's love, would appear in each book and come to exemplify Magnificence, the complete man. Spenser took the decorative chivalry of the Elizabethan court festivals and reworked it through a constantly shifting veil of allegory, so that the knight's adventures and loves build into a complex, multileveled portrayal of the moral life. The verse, a spacious and slow-moving nine-lined stanza (see SPENSERIAN STANZA), and Spenser's archaic language frequently rise to an unrivaled sensuousness. The first installment of the poem (Books I-III) was published in 1590; the second, which contained Books I-III and Books IV-VI, in 1596. The first folio edition, with Books I-VI and the MUTABILITIE CANTOS fragment, appeared in 1609.

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1979 Paperback Very Good Size: 7.8 x 5.1 x 2.1 inches; Clean, tight. Minor shelf wear. Epic poem that was published between 1590 and 1609 by Edmund Spenser. It is the central poem of the Elizabethan period and is one of the great long poems in the English language. A celebration of Protestant nationalism, it represents infidels and papists as villains, King Arthur as the hero, and married chastity as its central value. The form of The Faerie Queene fuses the medieval allegory with the Italian romantic epic. The plan was for 12 books (of which six were completed), focusing on 12 virtues exemplified in the quests of 12 knights from the court of Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a symbol for Elizabeth I herself. Arthur, in quest of Gloriana's love, would appear in each book and come to exemplify Magnificence, the complete man. Spenser took the decorative chivalry of the Elizabethan court festivals and reworked it through a constantly shifting veil of allegory, so that the knight's adventures and loves build into

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