(NOTE: These are not in our textbook. But they are the most famous, and arguably the most influential, sections of Spenser's great allegorical epic.)
Read these three texts. I have created PDF files of just the parts we need to read. The original texts are online at The Luminarium.
1. The Bower of Bliss (The Faerie Queene. Book II, Canto XII, verses 42-87). Please use this page .
(Sometimes the whole of FQ 2, XII is called "The Bower of Bliss". But we will read only the stanzas above).
2. The Garden of Adonis: Please use this page.
3. The Mutabilitie Cantos: FQ. Book VII, Cantos VI-VII. Please use this page.
Write 100-150 words on each of these three texts, identifying traditional elements. Make
sure to write 350-500 words in all.
Email to me and to your group.