Elfin Knight (Revised)
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Introduction
Preface
Canto I
Fairy Tales
Bury The Hatchet
Canto II
Off To Bed With You
Canto III
Riddle Me This
Canto IV
Guyon
What Do You Know?
Canto V
On Guard!
Canto VI
What’s The Story?
Canto VII
Can You Dig It?
Canto VIII
Take The Field
Canto IX
Angels
Do Your Worst
Canto X
You’re History
Canto XI
Off With His Head!
Canto XII
Unicorns
Let Grill Be Grill
Appendix: A Play
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Edmund Spenser (1559-99) has earned the title ‘the poet’s poet’ because of the high poetry of his epic and because so many great poets, including Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and Keats, cut their poetic teeth on The Faerie Queene.
The hero of Book II is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance. But do not let that throw you. This is not a poem about teetotalism. As C.S. Lewis puts it, The Faerie Queene ‘demands of us a child’s love of marvels and dread of bogies, a boy’s thirst for adventures, a young man’s passions for physical beauty.
Following in the wake of Roy Maynard’s Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, Toby Sumpter’s notes are insightful and humorous making this great Christian epic poem accessible for modern readers. The Elfin Knight makes an excellent choice as a homeschool or classroom text.
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SKU (ISBN): 9781591280521
ISBN10: 1591280524
Toby Sumpter | Edmund Spenser
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: October 2010
Faerie Queene # 2
Publisher: Canon Press
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