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From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a
duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of
The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry.
Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance, whose challenges
frequently take the form of temptations. Accompanied by a holy
Palmer in place of a squire, Guyon struggles to subdue himself as
well as his enemies. His adventures lead up to a climactic
encounter with the arch-temptress Acrasia in her Bower of Bliss,
which provides the occasion for some of Spenser's most sensuous
verse. With its mixture of chivalric romance, history, and moral
allegory, Book Two succeeds in presenting an exuberant exploration
of the virtue of self-restraint.
This revised and enlarged Fourth Edition expands and improves on
the strengths of the previous three editions. All selections are
based on early and established texts, fully glossed, and carefully
annotated. An Editor's Note follows each section. This new edition
addresses the shifts in scholarly and critical interests in Spenser
studies since 1993 as well as access provided by new technology.
Notes reflect the information that Spenser's best readers would
have at their fingertips without spoiling the pleasure of reading
Spenser for the first time. Mother Hubberds Tale from the 1591
Complaints is newly included. The Ruines of Rome, Spenser's
translation of Joachim Du Bellay's Antiquitez, is also added to
give readers the chance to see Spenser at work as a translator and
to give the English perspective on Rome. Sixteen critical essays
have been added to supplement fourteen earlier commentaries. Among
the perspectives new to the Fourth Edition are those of C. S Lewis,
Martha Craig, Gordon Teskey, Jeff Dolven, David Wilson-Okamura, and
Jennifer Summit. In keeping with the last edition, critical pieces
on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and
Amoretti are grouped together to facilitate classroom discussion.
New selections from Jane Grogan, Andrew D. Hadfield, Colin Burrow,
Lynn Staley, Lauren Silberman, and A. E. B. Coldiron join the
readings on House of Busyrane, and "Amoretti" grows with selections
by A. Leigh DeNeef and Helena Mennie Shire. A Chronology of
Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included.
Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the
last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They
show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal
note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author,
worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in
health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral
confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy,
has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser
saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and
disturbing work there are moments of great beauty and harmony, such
as the famous dance of the Graces that Colin Clout, the rustic
alter ego of the poet himself, conjures up with his pipe. Book
Seven, the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, is among the finest of
Spenser's poetic works, in which he explains the mythical origins
of his world, as the gods debate on the hill opposite his Irish
house. Whether order or chaos triumphs in the end has been the
subject of most subsequent critical debate.
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. 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." Following in the wake of Roy
Maynard's Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, Toby J. Sumpter's notes
are insightful and humorous-making this great Christian epic poem
accessible for modern readers. The Elfin Knight makes an excellent
choice as a homeschool or classroom text. -Jayson Grieser, PhD,
Fellow of Humanities, New Saint Andrews College Toby J. Sumpter
(MA, Erskine Theological Seminary) is co-pastor of Trinity Reformed
Church in Moscow, Idaho. Sumpter also writes for the online
journal, Credenda/Agenda and can be found regularly at
havingtwolegs.blogspot.com. He and his wife Jenny and their three
children live in Moscow.
From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a
duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of
The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry.
Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance, whose challenges
frequently take the form of temptations. Accompanied by a holy
Palmer in place of a squire, Guyon struggles to subdue himself as
well as his enemies. His adventures lead up to a climactic
encounter with the arch-temptress Acrasia in her Bower of Bliss,
which provides the occasion for some of Spenser's most sensuous
verse. With its mixture of chivalric romance, history, and moral
allegory, Book Two succeeds in presenting an exuberant exploration
of the virtue of self-restraint.
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