The Faerie Queene, one of the great long poems in the English language, written in the 16th century by Edmund Spenser. As originally conceived, the poem was to have been a religious-moral-political allegory in 12 books, each consisting of the adventures of a knight representing a particular moral virtue; Book I, for example, recounts the legend of the Red Cross Knight, or Holiness. The knights serve the Faerie Queene, who represents Glory and Queen Elizabeth I.
Edmund Spenser is called the poet of poets. His famous sonnet collection is Amoretti. Other works: - The Faerie Queen (Epic), - The Shepherds Calendar, - The Ruins of Time etc.