The faerie queene /
Edmund Spenser ; edited by Thomas P. Roche, Jr. and C. Patrick O'Donnell, Jr.
- London : Penguin, 1978.
- 1248 p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
'The Faerie Queene' was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen.