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Faerie Queene: Edmund Spenser
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The plan of the Faërie Queene is borrowed from the Orlando Furioso, but the creative power of Spenser is more original, and his imagery more striking, than Ariosto's. Thomson says of him -
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The English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser wrote his greatest work, the epic called The Faerie Queene, in a stanza form since named for him. The nine-line stanza rhymes ababbcbcC, where the capital "C" means the last verse is an Alexandrine: it has six feet instead of five, which is to say, it's a hexameter instead of pentameter.
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What can you deduce about Spenser's world view (particularly his ideas about religion and politics) based upon your reading of The Faerie Queene? To what extent is Red Cross Knight an "Everyman"?
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