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Has anyone read this? Apparently I went to the same school as Spenser so I was thinking of giving it a go. I just wanted to know if it's worth my time seeing as it's so long.

>> No.5714804
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5714804

>Arthurian Legend
>picture of the slut who happened to be queen at the time on the cover

>> No.5714806

>>5714797
>Apparently I went to the same school as Spenser
implying we give a shit

>> No.5714816

>>5714797
I've read a bit for a class actually. Its pretty classical, very moral based. The idea that almost every sonnet follows the same pattern is great if you're interested in poetics. The pattern of the book is basically to just repeat its ideas over and over and over again, so from a modern perspective it gets pretty fucking boring

>> No.5714820

>>5714816
>sonnet
you know nothing of poetry and spew terms whose meaning you have no idea of, go drown yourself in a pit shit

>> No.5714823

>>5714820
meant to write stanza there. My mistake, its 4 in the morning for me

>> No.5714826

I know most of /lit/ doesn't care, but the only reason Spenser is so revered in England is because he was a fucking suck up to the Monarchy.

Don't get me wrong, he's a good poet. Possibly even great.

But go over there and he's canonized above Wilde, Tennyson, Dickens, etc., and just behind Shakespeare.

Fucking kiss-ass who wrote poems which reassured the peasants that the Monarchy was something to be admired.

>> No.5714827

>>5714804
do you really not know it was written for and about her?

>> No.5714831

>>5714826
OP here, he definitely isn't regarded as better than Wilde or Dickens (maybe Tennyson).

>> No.5714868

>>5714826
>>5714831

But Wilde is for young adults

>> No.5714871

>>5714868

GOD I HATE THAT GUY

>> No.5714876

>>5714868
gtfo Navokov

>> No.5714887

>>5714797
I haven't read it, mostly because the overwhelming consensus seems to be that only hardcore English antiquarians actually like it, particularly compared to the universal appreciation for Paradise Lost.

If you don't have a strong medievalist bent I wouldn't attempt it.