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Spenser's Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' is an epic poem that combines elements of romance, allegory, and moral instruction. The work is divided into twelve books, each focusing on a different virtue or quest. The poem is known for its elaborate language and intricate structure, as well as its exploration of the human condition and the struggle between good and evil. more

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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser, a renowned English poet, was born in England in 1552. His poetry has had a profound impact on literature, with his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' being hailed as a classic of English literature. more

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“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”