A review by abetterjulie
The Faerie Queene, Book One by Edmund Spenser

3.0

Hard to rate a book with this much history and from a time period which uses a different English. Without the footnotes, I'd have been lost. I wish there'd been more of them in the version I read on the Kindle because there were frequently words I couldn't parse from context or roots. I would never have guessed this was political or allegorical. Do we still make literature that functions at this level? I preferred Virgil and Milton to Spenser, but I'm glad to have read it.