005 The Dark Souls of Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (Book 1)

You up for some epic fantasy that somehow moves faster and slower than The Lord of the Rings? You up for an allegory where Pride is an ogre, Deception is a woman in makeup, and Queen Elizabeth is an elf? Edmund Spenser spins a tale of conflicted knights in a dark world, filled with Soulsborne-esque monsters.

 

Sources

Edmund Spenser, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Andrew Hadfield

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (Penguin)