“The Faerie Queene” is an epic written by-

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.
- The first installment of the poem (Books I–III) was published in 1590; the second (Books IV–VI), in 1596.
-The first folio edition appeared in 1609.

[Source: Britannica]