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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.
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