Quotes from Edmund Spenser's books, and about them
The Faerie Queene on Iliad: “In which I have followed all the antique poets historicall: first Homer, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis:”
The Faerie Queene on The Odyssey: “In which I have followed all the antique poets historicall: first Homer, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis:”
Billy Budd on The Faerie Queene: “Read any canto in _The Faerie Queene_ and then read _A Select Party_, and decide which pleases you most”
Westward Ho! on The Faerie Queene: “…that he who wrote the "Arcadia" was at the same time, in spite of his youth, one of the subtlest diplomatists of Europe; that the poet of the "Faerie Queene" was also the author of "The State of Ireland;" and if they shall quote against me with a sneer Lilly's "Euphues" itself, I shall only…”
Phantastes on The Faerie Queene: “The noble hart that harbours vertuous thought And is with childe of glorious great intent, Can never rest, until it forth have brought Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent." SPENSER, The Faerie Queene.”
The Story of My Life on The Faerie Queene: “teacher is reading "The Faery Queen" to me. I am afraid I find fault with the poem as much as I enjoy it.”
The Eustace Diamonds on The Faerie Queene: “She had intended during this vacant time to master the "Faery Queen;" but the "Faery Queen" fared even worse than "Queen Mab;"”
Jacob's Room on The Faerie Queene: “the works of Dickens; the Faery Queen; a Greek dictionary with the petals of poppies pressed to silk between the pages”