For Faerie Queen And Country

Author : David Cook
Publisher : TSR
ISBN 13 : 9781560765912
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Faerie, Queen and Country written by David Cook and published by TSR. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amazing blend of fantasy and reality contains special rules for surviving in the realm of Faerie. Packaged with the 32-page Core Rules for the Amazing Engine System. Experienced players and referees. Illustrated.

Author : Catherine Nicholson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201595
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene written by Catherine Nicholson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem—and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies "I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note of consternation that resonates throughout The Faerie Queene's reception history, from its first known reader, Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey, who urged him to write anything else instead, to Virginia Woolf, who insisted that if one wants to like the poem, "the first essential is, of course, not to read" it. For more than four centuries critics have sought to counter this strain of readerly resistance, but rather than trying to remedy the frustrations and failures of Spenser's readers, Catherine Nicholson cherishes them as a sensitive barometer of shifts in the culture of reading itself. Indeed, tracking the poem's mixed fortunes in the hands of its bored, baffled, outraged, intoxicated, obsessive, and exhausted readers turns out to be an excellent way of rethinking the past and future prospects of literary study. By examining the responses of readers from Queen Elizabeth and the keepers of Renaissance commonplace books to nineteenth-century undergraduates, Victorian children, and modern scholars, this book offers a compelling new interpretation of the poem and an important new perspective on what it means to read, or not to read, a work of literature.

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David "Zeb" Cook
Publisher : TSR
ISBN 13 : 9781560766575
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Faerie, Queen, and Country written by David "Zeb" Cook and published by TSR. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. C. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317865642
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spenser: The Faerie Queene written by A. C. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers of Spenser. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. This volume also contains additional original material, including a letter to Raleigh, commendatory verses and dedicatory sonnets, chronology of Spenser's life and works and provides a compilation of list of characters and their appearances in The Faerie Queene.

Author : Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738722294
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lament written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a music prodigy, who’s about to find out she can see faeries. Two mysterious (and cute) guys enter her life. Trouble is, Luke is a soulless faerie assassin and Aodhan is a dark faerie soldier. Their orders from the Faerie Queen? Kill Deirdre.

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465520554
Total Pages : 2395 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 2395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, in a country not far from Fairyland, there lived a king and queen and their daughter, whose name was Una. Una was one of the most beautiful princesses that ever were seen, and she was as good as she was beautiful. She and her father and mother loved each other very dearly, and they were very happy together, until a dreadful thing happened in their kingdom and took all their happiness away. A hideous dragon came from another country, and killed men and women and little children. With its fiery breath it turned the trees and grass and flowers into black ashes, and it slew everybody that it came across. It would have killed Una’s father and mother too, but they and some of their servants shut themselves up in a tower made of brass. The dragon tried very hard to get in and eat them up, but it could not break into a tower so strong. For seven years the king and queen hid in their tower, while the dragon lay outside. Many brave knights came and fought with the horrible monster and tried to save the king and queen. But the dragon was stronger than all the knights, and killed every one of them. At last Una made up her mind to ride to Fairyland and ask the Queen of the Fairies to send one of her knights to kill the dragon. Una took no soldiers nor servants with her, but a dwarf carried for her the food and clothes she needed, and she rode on a little white ass. Her dress was of white, but she covered it and her beautiful, shining, golden hair up with a black cloak to show that she felt sad. Her lovely face was very sorrowful, for she was so unhappy at the cruel things the dragon had done, and the danger her dear father and mother were in. Una safely got to the court of the Faerie Queen, and a young knight, fearless and faithful and true, offered to come back with her to kill the dragon. His name was George, but on the breast of his silver armour, and on his silver shield, a red cross was painted. So people called him the Red Cross Knight. The sun shone bright, and the birds sang sweetly, as Una and her knight rode away through the woods that lay between her father’s kingdom and the lands of the Faerie Queen. The knight’s great war-horse pranced and champed at its bit, and Una’s little donkey put down its dainty feet gently on the grass and wondered at the great big horse and his jingling harness as they went along side by side. Before they had gone very far a storm came on. The sky grew dark and rain fell heavily, and they would have been drenched had they not found shelter in a thick wood. There were wide paths in this wood, and tall trees whose leafy branches grew so close that no rain could come through. It was such a beautiful wood, and they were so happy talking together and listening to the birds’ sweet song, that they rode along without noticing where they went. So when the rain stopped and they wished to get back to the open road, they could not find the way. On and on they went, until they came to the mouth of a great dark cave. The knight sprang from his horse, and giving his spear to the dwarf to hold, went forward to see what might be hidden in the darkness. ‘Do not be so rash!’ cried Una; ‘I know that this is a terribly dangerous place, and that a dreadful monster stays in that black den!’ The frightened dwarf also begged him to come away, but the knight said, ‘I should be ashamed to come back. If one is good, one need have no fear of the darkness.’ So into the darkness he went, and in the faint light that came from his shining armour he saw a hideous monster. It had a great ugly head and a long speckled tail like a serpent’s, and it rushed at the knight, roaring furiously. He struck at it with his sword, but it wound its horrible tail around him, until he was nearly crushed to death. Una called to him not to fear, but to strike the monster bravely. And he, smiting it with all his might, cut off its head. Then Una and he rode joyfully onwards, and, as evening fell, they found a way out of the wood. On the road they met an old man who looked kind and good. He asked them to stay all night in his cottage in a little valley near at hand, and they gladly went.

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spenser's Britomart written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743476447
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Elizabeth I written by Elizabeth I (Queen of England) and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impeccably researched collection of the public and private writings of the great British monarch Queen Elizabeth I was one of the most charismatic of English sovereigns, and one of the most prolific. While her more famous public speeches are familiar to some, many of her private writings have never before been printed or made accessible. Now, for the first time, a generous selection of her poetry, speeches, essays, letters, prayers, and translations is being made available to a popular audience. From a poem written in charcoal on a wall at Woodstock Palace by the twenty-two-year-old imprisoned princess, to the speech the thirty-year-old queen gave in response to parliamentary pressure that she marry, to the fascinating letters sent to her emissaries as they conducted the kingdom's business, this collection of the selected writings of Elizabeth I is a privileged glimpse into the mind of one of the most compelling rulers of the Western world. Authenticity was a guiding principle in the selection of these readings. This volume grew out of the many manuscript texts of Elizabeth's works Professor Steven W. May discovered while preparing the Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, a twelve-year research project that took him to more than 100 manuscript archives in this country and the United Kingdom. The anthology offers a broad selection of Queen Elizabeth's works and includes the most authentic and interesting English texts that survive in her handwriting. Her written words reveal not only Elizabeth's political and psychological insight, but her literary gifts as well. The texts, presented in modern spelling and set forth in their historical context, are accompanied by extensive explanatory notes and introductory material. An impressive collection of rare documents, presented with abundant commentary and full explanatory notes, as well as an informative introduction providing helpful background on Elizabeth's life and letters.

Author : June Waudby
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781408204788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Poetry and Prose written by June Waudby and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and exciting approach to the poetry and prose of the Renaissance which discusses the best-known writers and poets of the age - Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and Donne - alongside writers much newer to the canon, such as Mary Sidney, Anne Locke and Aemilia Lanyer. The cultural context of the period is covered extensively in chapters focusing on religion, exploration and gender, and relevant modern critical theory is integrated throughout.