Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

The opening book of Edmund Spenser's great Elizabethan epic, following the Red Cross Knight and the lady Una on a quest that is at once a thrilling romance and a rich allegory of holiness.

At a glance Here begins one of the grandest poems in English, a tapestry of knights and monsters… What it's about Book I of The Faerie Queene tells the legend of the Red Cross Knight… Along the way he meets deceivers, false faiths and fearsome creatures, is led astray… Written in Spenser's specially crafted stanza, the narrative moves as pure chivalric…

Book I of The Faerie Queene tells the legend of the Red Cross Knight, champion of Holiness, who sets out with the gentle lady Una to slay a dragon threatening her parents' kingdom.