The Illustrated Faerie Queene: A Modern Prose Adaptation
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"As C. S. Lewis once remarked of Spenser's vast symbolic and poetic romance, reading a passage from "The Faerie Queene" is like looking at a body of very clear, very deep water. The surface movement in itself is beautiful, hypnotic, fascinating; then you realize that something equally fascinating is going on beneath the surface; then you realize that the water is so deep that you can't be sure whether you will ever see all the way to the bottom. In "The Illustrated Faerie Queene: A Modern Prose Adaptation," Douglas Hill offers an extensive and thorough recounting of the surface narrative of Spenser's poem, much more detailed than Cliff's Notes, for instance, and, in contrast to Mary Macleod's nineteenth-century "Stories from The Faerie Queene," neither merely selective nor bowdlerized for children. He also provides a very basic understanding of the allegory."
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