Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen
Posted: September 3rd, 2009, 4:25 pm
Hey everyone,
So I want to read that great classic The Faerie Queen. Lewis taught on it, loved it, and it's considered a great Christian Classic. Many of my favorite Christian writers have praised it, and so I want to give it a go. I have not yet dipped into anything Spenserian.
My questions are not really specific, other than what edition would be best. I'd just like any thoughts some more veteran Spenser readers may have. Anything I should know or get first aquainted with? I've read Virgil, Homer, Ovid, and Dante, but am by no means a scholar, just having read the Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, some of Metamorphosis, and the Inferno.
I also know Lewis taught TFQ, but don't know how to find any of his lectures. For example, here is a copy of one - http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/ ... -date-1936
But I don't want to pay for something like that if I don't have to. I could also, of course, check my university library.
Thanks!
So I want to read that great classic The Faerie Queen. Lewis taught on it, loved it, and it's considered a great Christian Classic. Many of my favorite Christian writers have praised it, and so I want to give it a go. I have not yet dipped into anything Spenserian.
My questions are not really specific, other than what edition would be best. I'd just like any thoughts some more veteran Spenser readers may have. Anything I should know or get first aquainted with? I've read Virgil, Homer, Ovid, and Dante, but am by no means a scholar, just having read the Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, some of Metamorphosis, and the Inferno.
I also know Lewis taught TFQ, but don't know how to find any of his lectures. For example, here is a copy of one - http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/ ... -date-1936
But I don't want to pay for something like that if I don't have to. I could also, of course, check my university library.
Thanks!