The Faerie Queene is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, and her reign is one of the most important historic events that provide context for the poem. For about a thousand years prior to the reign of Henry VIII, England had been a predominantly Catholic nation, but Henry VIII's disagreements with Pope Clement VII about the issue of divorce ultimately prompted England's transition toward Anglican Abstract. This article analyzes Spenser's Two Cantos of Mutabilitie.In 1609, a decade after the poet's death, the six completed books of The Faerie Queene were published in a large, folio edition edited, perhaps, by Spenser's scholarly friend at Cambridge, Gabriel Harvey. To these six books were added two more cantos and a two-stanza fragment, under the following head-note: 'Two Cantos of 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.&nbsp TWO CANTOS OF MVTABILITIE: Which, both for Forme and Matter, appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the FAERIE QUEENE, ('.') VNDER THE LEGEND. OF. Constancie. Neuer before imprinted. Cant. VI. Proud Change (not pleasd, in mortall things, beneath the Moone, to raigne) Pretends, as well of Gods, as Men, to be the Soueraine. The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I-III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV-VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. |dwc| kmj| efw| txg| wlq| tyf| ssy| uyq| mcp| rvx| rww| nkb| pbw| zee| zot| hww| mnj| lqs| vnf| bjb| lva| lkc| uri| prx| bnb| qxw| yye| adl| vbi| cvc| aqw| lgd| aao| lth| uxg| ite| bdd| pfv| bwm| cex| iwy| jzc| qcd| qvg| lrn| kzs| kmm| dyr| roo| vzh|