THE FAERIE QUEENE

BOOK I

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

GEORGE ARMSTRONG WAUCHOPE, M.A., PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE

Velut inter ignes luna minores

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1915

All rights reserved

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1903. Reprinted February, 1905; February, 1906; February, 1907; March, 1908; July, 1909; February, December, 1911; September, 1912; December 1913; January, August, 1915.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION:

1. The Age which produced the Faerie Queene.

II. The Author of the Faerie Queene

III. Study of the Faerie Queene:

1. A Romantic Epic

Canto II.

Canto III.

Canto IV.

Canto V

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81.