An allegorical epic of knights embodying the virtues, questing through a fairyland in praise of Elizabeth I. Spenser's vast unfinished masterpiece.
Books mentioned in The Faerie Queene (2)
Iliad by Homer: “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 Odyssey by Homer: “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:”
Books that mention The Faerie Queene (14)
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Shepherds of Arcadia, and allegoric figures from the "Faerie Queen," were oddly mixed up with these.”
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “Read any canto in _The Faerie Queene_ and then read _A Select Party_, and decide which pleases you most”
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: “…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 by George MacDonald: “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 by Helen Keller: “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 by Anthony Trollope: “She had intended during this vacant time to master the "Faery Queen;" but the "Faery Queen" fared even worse than "Queen Mab;"”
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser lay before him under the tremulous candle-light.”
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf: “the works of Dickens; the Faery Queen; a Greek dictionary with the petals of poppies pressed to silk between the pages”
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges: “Eliot, con más justicia, recuerda los setenta cantos de la incompleta alegoría The Faerie Queene, en los que no aparece una sola vez la heroína, Gloriana.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “like Spenser's Faerie Queene, or Ariosto, where the soul is free of the restraints of history and fact.”
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, LL. D: “How beautiful is the description of it given by Spenser in his Faerie Queene! The lines need no apology for their repetition here, and any sketch of the great prophet of Britain would be incomplete without them:”
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: “She, the gracious lady, yet no paines did spare To doe him ease, or doe him remedy: Many restoratives of vertues rare And costly cordialles she did apply, To mitigate his stubborne malady. Spenser's Faerie Queens.”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “But this sad evil which doth her infest, Doth course of natural cause far exceed, And housed is within her hollow breast, That either seems some cursed witch's deed, Or evill spright that in her doth such torment breed. _Fairy Queen, Book III., Canto III._”