The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos Hardback
by Edmund Spenser
Edited by Andrew Hadfield, Abraham Stoll
Part of the Hackett Classics series
Hardback
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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.
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- Pages:264 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece
- Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Publication Date:15/09/2007
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- ISBN:9780872208926
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- Pages:264 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece
- Publisher:Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Publication Date:15/09/2007
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- ISBN:9780872208926
