Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" I. Introduction When Edmund Spenser wrote his romantic epic The Faerie Queene, he intended for it to be an allegory. ... In a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser wrote, "Sir knowing how doubtfully all Allegories may be construed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled the Faery Queene, being a continued Allegory, or dark conceit..."" (514). ... "Each book of The Faerie Queene has as its centre a hero or heroine whose task is to learn a particular virtue by facing, falling before but ultimately discovering how to master, the sp...

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