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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Faerie Queene’s been flying under the radar of Pioneer Square’s exalted restaurant revitalization since this past spring. It’s got an odd name: the title of an extremely long, unfinished epic by ...

Neither history nor biography has been kind to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser (1554-1599). Following his sudden death, he was buried in Westminster Abbey next to Chaucer, but the inscription on ...