The Warrior Princess: Book 3 of Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
Title | The Warrior Princess: Book 3 of Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Maynard |
Publisher | Canon Press & Book Service |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1591280958 |
Edmund Spenser's tomb at Westminster Abbey has the inscription, the Prince of Poets. If you've read Books I and II of his unfinished English epic, The Faerie Queene, you know why by now. Book III is one of the most unique books, written from the perspective of the heroic Britomart, a warrior princess in search of her true love. Along the way she encounters wizards, monsters, braggarts, sea gods, cheats, and at the end, a deathly palace.
Spenser's Britomart
Title | Spenser's Britomart PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Spenser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Elfin Knight: Book 2 of Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
Title | The Elfin Knight: Book 2 of Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' PDF eBook |
Author | Toby Sumpter |
Publisher | Canon Press & Book Service |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1591280524 |
Edmund Spenser (1559-99) has earned the title "the poet's poet" because of the high poetry of his epic and because so many great poets, including Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and Keats, cut their poetic teeth on The Faerie Queene. The hero of Book II is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance. But do not let that throw you. This is not a poem about teetotalism. As C.S. Lewis puts it, The Faerie Queene "demands of us a child's love of marvels and dread of bogies, a boy's thirst for adventures, a young man's passions for physical beauty." Toby Sumpter's modernization follows Roy Maynard's Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, and includes similar notes that explain obscure vocabulary and references. Eat this book. Devour it. Read it and then reread it. Make its characters and adventures and lessons and images a part of your mental furniture. Be enchanted. Feed your hunger for fantasy. Exercise your faith. Test your judgment. Form your imagination. Enter Faerie Land.
The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes
Title | The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Spenser |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 1521 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1603840389 |
The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on the text, bibliography, glossary, and index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Edmund Spenser appear in every volume.
Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene
Title | Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene PDF eBook |
Author | Judith H Anderson |
Publisher | Medieval Institute Publications |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2018-03-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1580443184 |
Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. Taken together, their stories have a meaningful tale to tell about the function of narrative, which proves central to figuration in the still moving, metamorphic poem that Spenser created.
The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four
Title | The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Spenser |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2006-11-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1603840419 |
These paired Arthurian legends suggest that erotic desire and the desire for companionship undergird national politics. The maiden Britomart, Queen Elizabeth's fictional ancestor, dons armor to search for a man whom she has seen in a crystal ball. While on this quest, she seeks to understand how one can be chaste while pursuing a sexual goal, in love with a man while passionately attached to a woman, a warrior princess yet a wife. As Spenser's most sensitively developed character, Britomart is capable of heroic deeds but also of teenage self-pity. Her experience is anatomized in the stories of other characters, where versions of love and friendship include physical gratification, torture, mutual aid, competition, spiritual ecstasy, self-sacrifice, genial teasing, jealousy, abduction, wise government, sedition, and the valiant defense of a pig shed.
Gashmu Saith It
Title | Gashmu Saith It PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Wilson |
Publisher | Canon Press |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781952410871 |
As Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, Gashmu and the enemies of Israel mocked him: "It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel..." (Neh. 6:6). Too many Christians building communities today take the taunts of every modern-day Gashmu seriously. Community is a buzzword, and it turns out there's a lot of bad advice about how to build one. In Gashmu Saith It, Douglas Wilson includes forty years of experience for Christians wanting to build robust communities without retreat or compromise on the foundation of the Gospel. This book is full of wisdom: Get calluses. Be loyal. Fight sin. Build walls on the outside and a church in the middle.