TY - BOOK AU - Spenser,Edmund TI - The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Knights and knighthood -- Poetry KW - Virtues -- Poetry N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene; Release date is 2004-11-01; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Faerie Queene — Volume 01" by Edmund Spenser is an epic poem first published in 1590. This monumental allegorical work follows knights on quests to embody different virtues—Holiness, Temperance, and Chastity. Each knight faces temptations, enchantments, and monsters while pursuing their noble purposes. Written to praise Queen Elizabeth I and "fashion a gentleman" in virtuous discipline, the poem weaves together romance, adventure, and moral allegory across thousands of stanzas, creating one of the longest and most ambitious works in English literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6930 ER -