This is my presentation of semester 1 during the course of M.A. in English.

1. Ajit A Kaliya
M.A. SEM 1
Roll No 3
Enrollment No 2069108420170013
Batch 2016-18
Department Of English, MKBU

2. Edmund Spenser
 Born in 1552, London, England.
 Educated in merchant tailor’s school.
 In 1579 published ‘The Shepherd’s Calender.
 In 1590 brought out first three books of his most
famous work ‘The Faery Queen’.
 Died in 1599 at the age of forty six.
 Major works- The Shepherd’s Calender, The Faery
Queen, View Of The State Of Ireland,
Epithalamion, Astrophel

3. Faery Queen
Introduction
 Incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.
 First half was published in 1590 and second half in 1596.
 Original plan was writing 24 books, but could complete
only six books.
 Spenser’s greatest and longest work.
 One of the longest poems in English language.
 Origin of verse form that come to be known as Spenserian
stanza.
 Allegory of Tudor Dynasty and Elizabeth one.

4. Spenser’s intention for writing this book
 Spenser states in his letter to Raleigh that
“the general end of the book is to fashion a
gentleman or noble person in virtuous and
gentle discipline

5. Six Virtues
Book 1 - Holiness
Book 2 - Temperance
Book 3 - Chastity
Book 4 - Friendship
Book 5 - Justice
Book 6 - Courtesy

6. Themes
Allegory of virtues
Religion
Politics
Archetypes
Symbolism and allusion

7. Poetic Structure
 Written in Spenserian stanza.
 Nine iambic lines – the first eight of them
five footed and the ninth a hexameter.
 Rhyme pattern - ABABBCBCC

8. Language
Language is as in ‘Shepherd’s Calender’
is deliberately archaic.

9. Source
Wikipedia