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Have any of you read Spencer's The Faerie Queen? I read Pope's Rape of the Locke a few weeks ago but it was over too quickly and I'm looking to scratch that heroic couplet itch. What's a good edition?

>> No.8138976

>>8138971
>The Faerie Queen
>heroic couplet itch

you will be disappointed, anon, it's not written with heroic couplets, it's written with spenserian stanza

if you want heroic couplets read... pale fire

>> No.8138996

Pope's Homer if the form's really important to you.

if you want to loosen it up a bit, you could read fourteeners too, which brings in Chapman's Homer.

Keats' Lamia is pretty strict, come to think of it. There's a BBC 4 radio play of it too, if the form really isn't important.

But yeah, not Spencer.

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8139003

>>8138996
>Spencer

>> No.8139005

faerie queene does not have heroic couplets but you should read it anyway cause it's excellent

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>>8138971
>Spencer

>> No.8139008

>>8139003
lol yeah I didn't even capitalise the nouns how will spenser forgive me

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>>8139008
Seeke ye forgiveness from our Lord.