A review by lawrenceevalyn
The Faerie Queene, Book Three by Edmund Spenser

3.0

Each individual stanza is lovely, but goodness does Spenser write so MUCH, and with such a meandering structure. The more I read about the political context of this work re: Ireland, the more suspect I find his project of defining an English, Protestant national identity. Violent opposition to Irish cultural heritage is a lot less cute than just sucking up to Elizabeth I.