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The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

3.43 · rating details · 3,184 ratings · 144 reviews

Hamilton's edition is a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. The entire work is revised, and the text of The Faerie Queene itself has been freshly edited, the first such edition since the 1930s. The text, itself a milestone in academic achievement, has been produced by Hiroshi Yamashita and Toshiyuki Suzuki and is now considered the new standard text of the poem.

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Published January 25th 1979 by Penguin Books (first published 1590)

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Aug 21, 2008

Bruce rated it

How astonishing is the literary fecundity of England's Elizabethan Age - Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, the list can go on and on. I last read "The Faerie Queene" more than forty-five years ago in a college English class, and then only in snippets. I felt that now was the time to read the poem in its entirety, and what a treat it has been.

The poem consists of seven books (the last being foreshortened to only two cantos) of twelve cantos each. Each canto c...moreHow astonishing is the literary fecundity of England's Elizabethan Age - Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, the list can go on and on. I last read "The Faerie Queene" more than forty-five years ago in a college English class, and then only in snippets. I felt that now was the time to read the poem in its entirety, and what a treat it has been.

The poem consists of seven books (the last being foreshortened to only two cantos) of twelve cantos each. Each canto contains about fifty stanzas, the total work running to more than 400 pages. Each stanza is constructed as, appropriately named, a Spenserian Stanza with the nine-line rhyme scheme ababbcbcc, the first eight lines being in iambic pentameter and the final in iambic hexameter. Within this scheme is astonishingly great variety, and I was amazed that Spenser could sustain a poem of this length without the form becoming restricting and tedious. His frequent use of enjambment serves to avoid a repetitive sing-song quality to which the work might otherwise have been prone, and part of the freshness and inventiveness is also provided by his extensive use of alliteration. Let me share just the last three lines of one stanza as an illustration of his alliteration:

"All flesh is frayle, and full of ficklenesse,
Subject to fortunes chance, still chaunging new;
What haps to day to me, to morrow may to you."

As is apparent, Spenser uses archaic language throughout. He owes a great debt to Chaucer in many ways, and his use of archaic language and spelling suggests Chaucer's Middle English. I found it charming, and one quickly and easily becomes accustomed to it.

The work was written as homage to Elizabeth I and describes the adventures of various knights each representing a chivalric virtue - Holinesse, Temperaunce, Chastitie, Courtesie, etc. The basic conceit would seem to derive from Medieval morality plays, and one is also reminded of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (again, however, the virtues praised are more distinctly chivalric than Christian), but "Faerie Queene" is to my mind far more charming and less preachy than the latter. Arthur plays a role as well, but the premise seems to be that these adventures predate his golden age. There are innumerable captivating and memorable characters and endless delightful adventures.

I was charmed by this work. It was simply one that I would have regretted having lived a lifetime without having read in its entirety. Highly recommended!

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Mar 14, 2008

David Cole rated it

Perhaps the greatest thing ever written in the English language. This masterpiece of medieval symbolism and epic poetry humbles the reader. 5 stars is inadequate.

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Jul 01, 2010

Ellen rated it

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I first really read this poem in graduate school with a teacher so superb he made Spenser, Milton, Donne, Herbert, and Marvell exciting. They are still among my favorite poets.

Faerie Queene is Spenser's richly imaginative 16th-century epic poem depicting the education/spiritual growth of the Redcrosse Knight. In Spenser's epic being able to distinguish between good and evil, true and false becomes imperative, but difficult in a landscape that is deceptive and illusory.
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Feb 15, 2009

Michael rated it

When it comes to sheer reading pleasure, it is almost impossible to beat "The Faerie Queene". It has nearly everything that a reader could desire; action, romance, deep philosophical and theological meaning, allegory, pitched battles on fields of honor, blood, swords, spears...everything that makes life worth living. And it is all wrapped in some of the most beautiful language ever to be set down in the English tongue. Spenser was a master of English, and you can sense that he wrote...more

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Aug 31, 2007

Keely rated it

Shelves: epic-poetry, poetry, reviewed, uk-and-ireland

Some place Ariosto above Dante because he tempers his ridiculously erratic romanticism with remarkable satire, joie de vivre, and a gently sloping concession to an ending. While both Ariosto's and Spenser's works are long-winded, Spenser never overcomes the need for vindication which gradually grew out of this work. This desperation precluded the light-heartedness that buoyed Ariosto's lengthy tale.

The more one reads The Faerie Queene, the more one begins to respect Liz's desire to k...more

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Jun 26, 2007

Sarah rated it

This poem is amazing. I spent a year researching it, and I there is still a lot I could do with it. Spenser is a very visual poet, and the images he conjures are vivid and weird. He's highly underrated right now, and not a lot of students realize how influential a poet he really was. He's also an interesting figure because he is one of the first english poets to write about ireland, and had a weirdly antagonistic and nostaligic attitude toward the country. He loved Ireland geographically, and wr...more

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Sep 24, 2007

Peter rated it

Recommends it for: avid LOTR fans

At first, I read it and thought: what is this? I can barely understand the words coming out of their mouths! Thenne aftere a whille the odde spellungs and clus approxametions of currenntly spellede words becammes understandable.

I found the story itself to bee quite interesting, vivid action, big battles, giants swinging clubs made from tree trunks with such force, they bury them in the ground, villains in disguise, noble knights, "ruined" women committing suicide and le...more

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Nov 16, 2010

Brian marked it as on-hold · review of another edition

Read a few books of this in college. Aim now to read all of the 6 or so books Spenser was able to achieve (1 book=12 cantos, 1 canto=45 Spenserian stanzas, 1 Spenserian stanza=9 lines of a set rhyme and meter) of his original 12-book plan. Great stuff: knights, princesses, evil magicians, Arthurian mythology, etc., all employed to fashion the 12 moral virtues (or about 6, I guess) as understood by Spenser in 1596. Oh, and it's deliberately written in archaic English (a la Chaucer), which is smas...more

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Oct 15, 2009

Bettie rated it

Shelves: adventure, classic, britain-england, fantasy, fraudio, philosophy, play-dramatisation, poetry, tudor, published-1590

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May 01, 2009

Wendy Verkler rated it

It's really good if you like linguistic puzzles. If medieval English bothers you, you will hate this book.

Also, you must like wizards (good and evil), potions, jousting knights, hidden identities, mermaids, jesters, princesses, castles, trap doors, secret passages, dark and dangerous forests, magical/mythical creatures, magic mirrors, women in disguise fighting as knights, nymphs, treasure chests, pagan gods, Merlin, King Arthur, various knights of the round table as well as ones yo...more

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May 29, 2011

Tracy rated it

If anyone told me a year ago that I would enjoy The Faerie Queene, I would have laughed out loud! I am so glad that I am reading this book - but I am especially glad that I am reading it with Rebeca Helfer, the professor for the Epic Novel seminar I am taking at UCI. Her reading of the book makes it explosive, wonderful, ever rich. I hope to be able to work more closely with this book again. . . but right now, I gotta go read Book 6.

Oh, and I realize, yes, that Spencer had retrograde ...more

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Jun 09, 2009

Marie rated it

It doesn't benefit from being read cover-to-cover. This is mostly a series of unrelated adventures and I found it useful to read one canto at a time. Books three and four hang together more than the most and were my favorite part, though that might just be my eagerness at reading of the adventures of a Lady Knight.

Spenser writes "Chaucerian" English the way you or I might write Elizabethan English - he substitutes a few key antiquated words and spellings whenever he can. ...more

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Mar 21, 2011

Benjamin rated it

If you can make it past Spenser's somewhat out of date writing (finished the 6 books of the Faery Queen by 1596), and also make it past his spelling, which was written with the intention of looking old even for its 16th century publication and seems to modern readers just plain old mean, then you may finally get to the heart of reading Spenser, which is to say you will be faced with a contradiction: you will simultaneously be happy as hell Spenser never managed to complete the other 18 books in ...more

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Oct 24, 2010

Noah rated it

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Shelves: poetry, medieval-literature, modern-literature

The Faerie Queene itself: five stars. What an amazing piece of literature. I had stayed away from it for a while after only reading the first book (which I still think is not all that impressive), but picked it up again for a class on Elizabethan poetry. The poem is so thick and complicated that I doubt one can ever completely 'get' it, and I look forward to diving back into it in a few years to see new things.

Hamilton's edition: three stars. I was somewhat unimpressed with the...more

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Jun 24, 2010

Andrew MacIntire rated it

Thus far I've only completed the first cycle, detailing the Redcrosse Knight's trial by fire. I am, however, completely enraptured and delighted. Spenser's linguistic style, which hearkens back to Middle English spellings and structure despite being Modern English, has always charmed me, and the extent to which his characters are indentifiable true *characters* despite being pawns in an allegory is impressive. It may take me quite some time, but I am very interested in reading the whole of th...more

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Jan 02, 2011

Leah rated it

Shelves: hours-i-will-never-get-back, talking-animals, trippy, effed-up

This book has stacked underneath it the most extensive amount of lit crit of anything I've ever read, save Shakespeare (maybe!). If Spenser really intended all that everyone say he did, then he is a friggin genius. There are umpteen-thousand pages in this book, but if you give it a go (especially the A.C. Hamilton-edited annotation, paired with his The Spenser Encyclopedia, a tome so massive you could probably murder someone with it), you will learn almost everything you need to know about Eliza...moreThis book has stacked underneath it the most extensive amount of lit crit of anything I've ever read, save Shakespeare (maybe!). If Spenser really intended all that everyone say he did, then he is a friggin genius. There are umpteen-thousand pages in this book, but if you give it a go (especially the A.C. Hamilton-edited annotation, paired with his The Spenser Encyclopedia, a tome so massive you could probably murder someone with it), you will learn almost everything you need to know about Elizabethan England, the feudal system that preceded it, and then some, not to mention meeting some strange women with odd genitalia, memorizing the honor code among knights and their passion for horses, and running into a few sprites, nymphs, giants, and other creatures. Based on Hamilton and others, pretty much every single stanza is loaded with allusions and things worth cross-referencing - quite a feat considering how many of them there are.

Oh, and for all you Twilight fans, the Britomart storyline reads like a teen angsty dream, except for the part where her nurse spits on her to cure her of her love-sickness.

Seeing as Spenser intended six more books in addition to the six he wrote here (seriously), I wonder if that wouldn't have ended up like Quentin Tarentino's third Kill Bill which is rumored to bring back the daughter who saw her mother killed by Uma Thurman. I think the bloody-handed baby sucking the from the dead Amavia was meant to reprise a role in the latter six, if Spenser had been so spirited by his mere pittance from Elizabeth to continue writing. Just my two cents. To carry the Kill Bill comparison further than necessary, this story was pretty epic.

The stanzas make it very easy to take a break from reading every five seconds, but I wouldn't recommend it. Just trudge on through. Despite the intended six more books, the ending is quite satisfying - Spenser has his own personal drama that is almost as entertaining as the book, and is worth looking into especially given the poet's closing remarks. The stories are very visual and intricate. Hamilton's version has an indexed list of characters at the end that is thus very handy. It starts out being hard to read but you can probably get accustomed to the linguistic feats by the end of the first book. Also, look up the word 'puissance', since it seems to come up a lot. Some books are more episodic than others, but of course like every other word in this book, there are more than twenty people who will tell you that there is a good reason for that. Along with Hamilton, some good scholars to read in conjunction with this include Kathryn Schwarz, Stephen Greenblatt, Jean Feerick, Louis Montrose, and Mihoko Suzuki.

I read this for a class and by the end of it I think all of us had gone a little wacky. One of my classmates seemed bent on connecting this book to The Final Destination and something about aliens, regardless of what our highly-esteemed professor had to say. Another friend Justin posted the following Facebook status: "Move over 'Exit pursued by a bear' - bear carrying baby in its mouth has arrived. Three months of Spenser and I finally chuckled out loud. Perhaps that just means that I'm sick, perhaps it means that a bear making off with a baby like it's a pic-a-nic basket is actually funny. Thoughts?" By the end of the semester, we as a class found our sense of humor sickened to appreciable levels, to the point where mutilations, beheadings and bears eating babies were pretty darned hilarious. At least we know how to entertain ourselves. (less)

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Jul 01, 2010

Mark Dewey rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, poetry, public-domain, epic, audio

I figured it was about time to listen to the longest known epic poem originally written in the English language (which was only about half-way completed when the author died). (Note that I'm not including translated texts, such as The Mahabharata, in this—though The Faerie Queene is longer than Savitri.) I have (and always have had) a strong interest in the fantasy genre, and I'm sure this book has influenced how fantasy has come to be; after having read it, I'm even more sure. Also, I liked how...more

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Oct 17, 2008

Tia rated it

What I am actually reading to my son is "Saint George and the Dragon" by Edmund Spenser, adapted by Sandol Stoddard Warburg. But it was adapted from The Faerie Queene, and the exact book we are reading is not on Goodreads, although I found it on Amazon.
My son absolutely loves the story of St. George and the Dragon, and was so excited when he borrowed this longer version of the story from his cousins. The illustrator is actually Pauline Baynes, who illustrated C.S. Lewis' Chroni...more

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Aug 23, 2008

Michael rated it

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Don't be scared off by this one. Spenser wrote the greatest poem that emerged from the age of Shakespeare. Surrender yourselve's to his lingo, his rhythm, his abundant humor. There are images in this poem I'll never forget, along with one of the most compelling and admirable female warriors ever realized in a poem, Britomart. What a babe. Seriously

The language may be tough at first for contemporary readers, but as recently as 120 years ago, FQ was pretty standard children's reading--...more

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Jan 07, 2010

Werner rated it

Recommends it for: Serious students of literature; fans of Renaissance poetry

Shelves: poetry

I read this (in a different edition, without notes and which preserved the Elizabethean spellings) as part of my course preparation for teaching British Literature when we were home schooling our girls, and found it a challenging --though not unrewarding-- read. The quaint spellings and archaic diction and vocabulary require slow and careful reading to mentally translate. Fully enjoying the work as Spenser originally intended is difficult (if not impossible), first because it's only half finis...moreI read this (in a different edition, without notes and which preserved the Elizabethean spellings) as part of my course preparation for teaching British Literature when we were home schooling our girls, and found it a challenging --though not unrewarding-- read. The quaint spellings and archaic diction and vocabulary require slow and careful reading to mentally translate. Fully enjoying the work as Spenser originally intended is difficult (if not impossible), first because it's only half finished; he completed only six of the projected dozen "books" that make up the whole, which plays havoc with developing a completed storyline. Second, the narrative the poet relates isn't simply an epic story; it's intended as an allegory (his model was the earlier Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ariosto, which English interpreters of that day misread as an allegory). The various questing knights, for instance, represent assorted cardinal virtues; the title character is easily recognized as a stand-in for Elizabeth I, and so forth (for instance, the Goodreads description above suggests that the Amazon queen, Radigund, who winds up decapitated, represents Mary Queen of Scots). Full-blown allegory usually works well only if the various symbolizations are easily understood, or explained; that wasn't the case for me, so that aspect was largely over my head.

Despite those defects, though, considered as stories in their own right many of the various episodes here prove to be quite fascinating (once you decipher the language :-)). The setting is Arthurian England, but Spenser treats it as a full-blown fantasy world, where high-medieval knights co-exist with figures from classical mythology, and the human world shares a much-crossed border with Faerie. Consequently, it's a fountain-head of the Arthurian fantasy subgenre, and a treasure trove (which later genre writers undoubtedly used as a grab-bag) of fantasy motifs. For me, one of the best parts was the depiction of Sir Artegall's love interest, Britomartis, a "lady knight" whose own lethal combat skills make her perhaps literature's first action heroine --she rescues him, rather than the other way around, when he gets himself into trouble. (Radigund is no slouch at fighting either; and while Spenser views her as villainess rather than heroine, that's undoubtedly not the way she views herself.) Of course, Spenser had a long way to go in his gender attitudes; the approving description of Britomartis returning the defeated Amazons "to men's subjection" and repealing the "liberty of women" had me rolling my eyes big time. :-) But her character nevertheless is somewhat subversive of the ideas of that day about gender roles --and both male and female readers certainly must have picked that up.(less)

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Oct 18, 2007

Jason rated it

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Shelves: poetry, favorites

Like other reviewers harped on (all referencing the Penguin edition), this is a very difficult text for the casual reader, but can be very rewarding. There are a few misnomers that popped up in said reviews, however, that should be corrected: this is NOT a medieval text, as it was published during the height of Elizabeth I's reign. Also, it is not technically written in Old English, but rather is a purposeful antiquation of Spenser's contemporary English. Granted, he borrows a lot from Old Engli...moreLike other reviewers harped on (all referencing the Penguin edition), this is a very difficult text for the casual reader, but can be very rewarding. There are a few misnomers that popped up in said reviews, however, that should be corrected: this is NOT a medieval text, as it was published during the height of Elizabeth I's reign. Also, it is not technically written in Old English, but rather is a purposeful antiquation of Spenser's contemporary English. Granted, he borrows a lot from Old English, yet plays with it at the same time, creating connotations that are simultaneously modern. Of course, this isn't to say that reading Spenser in relation to medieval literature as well as the transition into the Renaissance and modern period is not extremely rewarding. Many people refer to Spenser as the poet of the Renaissance, while labeling Shakespeare as the dramatist, and indeed, Spenser has been equally influential to everyone after him, especially the Romantics, who revived an interest in Chaucer and Spenser's works.

The thing I perhaps enjoyed the most (as a casual reader and Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan) about The Faerie Queene was discovering that Spenser had created a sort of encyclopedia of Fantasy (technically Romance, I suppose) standards--creatures, themes, types of magic, etc. Most of these are not original to Spenser, but he puts them all in one place, borrowing from ancient traditions. Other reviewers noted the indebtedness many modern fantasy novelists owe him (like Tolkein). The most current and best example I can think of off hand is "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" which had whole spells that seemed to be cribbed from Spenser. In fact, the entire idea in Jonathan Strange of a sort of hidden Fairy England that ebbed into the unknown, is practically a direct rip off (which is cool, it makes the novel that much better) of Spenser's theme addressed at the beginning of Book II:

...none, that breatheth living aire, does know
Where is that happy land of Faery,
Which I so much doe vaunt, yet no where show,
But vouch antiquities, which nobody can know.
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Why then should witlesse man so much misweene,
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

All said, The Faerie Queene is bloody sweet.

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Mar 29, 2010

Angelia rated it

Spenser had hoped to receive appreciation for his English epic by The Faerie Queene herself, Elizabeth I. He didn't. However, his effort is a work of beauty and grace, a heroic tale worthy of the Arthurian romances that inspired it. It is not an easy read, that I'll grant, but the story is captivating once you settle into it, and Spenser's poetic skill is lovely to experience.

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Jan 10, 2010

Jaye rated it

Shelves: must-re-read

I bought my copy because I like old stuff, and this one had nice pictures, too.

I ended up really enjoying it and ultimately reading it to my two eldest children, who were small at the time.

It is another I must read again...partly so I can confirm that I have the correct edition chosen here, and partly to introduce it to my younger children!

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Sep 28, 2011

Katy rated it

Shelves: 2011, i-adore-you

Just read this for my Lit. class and really loved it. I was dreading it honestly, but ended up reading it all at once, with no note taking or breaks. I love how you can interpret so many things, and the way Spenser depicts the Queene instantly put me in mind of Elizabeth as it was supposed too. I still get sad when dragons get such bad roles lol.

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Oct 30, 2009

Bill Chamberlain rated it

This book is utterly boring and outdated. It is a total PR stunt to gain political favour, and a humorless one at that.

I knew two friends who almost transferred out of their English major because they found this work so tediously repellant.

Time to excommunicate this dud from the English major canon. Please.

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Nov 28, 2007

Katie rated it

Considered England's first epic poem and written by England's first national poet, the Fairie Queen (Book I) is the tale of Redcrosse the Knight and his temptations, failures, struggles and ultimate redemption through his battle with the dragon (Satan). The poem serves as Spenser's allegory about the natural virtue of man struggling to resist the temptations of sin and only finding true strength through the knowledge of God and embracing Christianity. I read Book I and strongly recommend reading...more

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Nov 20, 2009

Rsleatherwood rated it

A must-read! Writing during the same time period as Milton's "Paradise Lost", "Faerie Queen" manages to delve in to deeper human meaning and religious/non-secular existance in a less obvious manner. "faerie Queen" is an evocative and fun read

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Apr 07, 2009

J rated it

Hate Catholicism? This book is for you! J/K, it's amusing/peculiar in that regard, because it really is anti-Catholic, but it is a good cultural reflection of ideas and arguments, fear of losing moral ground and a great version of good vs evil.

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Aug 22, 2010

Brandy Painter rated it

Shelves: classic, fantasy

I only read through book one, which I enjoyed. That is saying something as poetry is not my thing, particularly epic poetry. The story is fascinating, as are the metaphors. I hope to read the rest of it someday but I am taking a little break for the time being.

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Oct 13, 2010

Briana marked it as to-read

Shelves: torrey-johnson-freshman-fall

But...we only read the first book...so this probably doesn't count.

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Canto 1- Serpent Mom gets beheaded: serpent kids swarm over to eat her and drink her blood.

Me- "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!"

And I did read my fair share of horror and gore in Homer, Virgil, and Dante. But to quote my brother, "Um...that's nasty."

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I just don't feel right about saying that I've actually finished reading this...It's just so mammot...more

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“So furiously each other did assayle,
As if their soules they would attonce haue rent
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Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent;
That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent,
And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore,
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