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  • 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

    Additional Info
    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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