The Faerie Queene (1590/1596)/Books 1 to 3 (1590)
Woodcut from 'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser printed in 1590
THE FAERIE
QVEENE.
Disposed into twelue books,
Fashioning
XII. Morall vertues.
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LONDON
Printed for William Ponsonbie.
1590.
Books (not listed in original)
Complimentary and dedicatory poems, etc
- A Letter of the Authors expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke
- A Vision upon this conceipt of the Faery Queene
- Another of the same
- To the learned Shepeheard
- "Fayre Thamis streame, that from Ludds stately towne"
- "Grave Muses march in triumph and with prayses"
- "When stout Achilles heard of Helens rape"
- To looke upon a worke of rare devise
- To the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton
- To the right honourable the Lord Burleigh
- To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford
- To the right honourable the Earle of Northumberland
- To the right honourable the Earle of Cumberland
- To the most honourable and excellent Lord the Earle of Essex
- To the right Honourable the Earle of Ormond and Ossory
- To the right honourable the Lord Charles Howard
- To the right honourable the Lord of Hunsdon
- To the most renowmed and valiant Lord, the Lord Grey of Wilton
- To the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst
- To the right honourable Sir Francis Walsingham
- To the right noble Lord and most valiaunt Captaine, Sir John Norris knight
- To the right noble and valorous knight, Sir Walter Raleigh
- To the right honourable and most vertuous Lady, the Countesse of Penbroke
- To the most vertuous, and beautifull Lady, the Lady Carew
- To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court
Errata
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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