The Guardian

Poem of the week: The Faerie Queene, Canto XI, Book One, by Edmund Spenser

A fearsome closeup of the dragon facing down the Redcrosse knight makes full use of Spenser's nine-line stanza form This week we're looking at stanzas X-XV from Canto XI, Book One, of Edmund Spenser's ...
BBC

The Faerie Queene

Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene to reveal how this fantasy world was written during Tudor occupation of Ireland. Show more Dr Janina Ramirez unravels ...
Los Angeles Times

Building a Spenser collection for the ages

Queen ELIZABETH I made him England’s poet laureate. But the complete works of Edmund Spenser -- whose epic poem, “The Faerie Queene,” so dazzled the monarch -- are hard to find these days. Now, thanks ...
Yale Environment 360

Reading and Not Reading ‘The Faerie Queene’

While literary critics have long viewed Edmund Spenser’s “The Fairie Queene” (1590) as one of the great epic poems in the English language, readers’ reactions to the work have often been less than ...
PBS

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) can be rightfully considered England’s finest poet of the sixteenth century. (Shakespeare and Donne, his rivals for such a credit, lived and wrote into the seventeenth ...