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The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature - Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures (Paperback)
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The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature - Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures (Paperback)
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Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most
challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised
as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. In it he
fused traditions of medieval romance and classical epic, his
religious and political allegory creating a Protestant alternative
to the Catholic romances rejected by humanists and Puritans. The
poem was later made over as children's literature, retold in lavish
volumes and schoolbooks and appreciated in pedagogical studies and
literary histories. Spenser's stories of knights, dragons, giants,
magicians, Saracens, castles, quests and tournaments were the stuff
of popular medieval romances and chapbooks. One fascinating knight
was a woman, Britomart. Distinguished writers for children
simplified the stories and noted artists illustrated them. Children
were not encouraged to consider the allegory but be inspired to the
moral virtues epitomized by the Red Cross Knight (holiness), Sir
Guyon (temperance), Britomart (chastity), Triamond and Cambell
(friendship), Sir Artegal (justice) and Sir Calidore (courtesy). As
adults, they could fully appreciate the achievement of ""the poets'
poet.
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