Stories From The Faerie Queene: Edmund Spencer's Epic Poem Retold In Modern English (English Edition)

– Stories From The Faerie Queene –

Edmund Spencer’s, The Faerie Queene, (or Fairy Queen in modern spelling) the epic 16th Century poem, translated into modern English prose. Suitable for all ages.

Included within one volume are all the stories from the original poem, starting with the much loved The Red Cross Knight which tells the tale of how St George fought the dragon and rescued the princess.

The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but little read and known - to excite this interest not only in young persons who are not yet able to read "The Faerie Queene," with its archaisms of language, its distant ways and habits of life and thought, its exquisite melodies that only a cultivated ear can catch and appreciate, but also in adults, who, not from the lack of ability, but because they shrink from a little effort, suffer the loss of such high and refined literary pleasure as the perusal of Spenser's masterpiece can certainly give.

– – Mary Macleaod..

Edited and revised by SJ Hills

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