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The Faerie Queene, Book ­Six and the Mutabilitie ­Cantos
Hackett Classics
By Edmund Spenser, Andrew Hadfield (Edited by), Abraham Stoll (Edited by)

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Paperback, 264 pages
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United States, 1 September 2007
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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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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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EAN
9780872208919
ISBN
0872208915
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1 halftone frontispiece
Dimensions
21.1 x 13.7 x 1 centimeters (0.23 kg)

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Fearie Queen, Book Six; Introduction; The Fearie Queen, Book Seven, the Mutabilitie Cantos; The Letter to Raleigh; The Life of Edmund Spenser; Textual Notes; Glossary; Index of Characters.

About the Author

Abraham Stoll is Assistant Professor of English, University of San Diego.

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A thoughtful edition with just the right amount of annotation for a class on sixteenth century literature. --Byron Nelson, West Virginia University

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